Fascinating article on the Discover Magazine Blogs about how the language we speak may influence how we think and act with regard to the future.
"if you divide up a large number of the world’s languages into those that require a grammatical marker for future time and those that don’t, you see an interesting correlation: speakers of languages that force grammatical marking of the future have amassed a smaller retirement nest egg, smoke more, exercise less, and are more likely to be obese."
More here:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/ ... w-it-cant/