"Bilingual Mandarin and English speakers living in Singapore also showed a preference for left to right mental time mapping over right to left mental mapping. But [..] also quicker to react to future oriented pictures if the future button was located below the past button – in line with Mandarin. Indeed, this also suggests that bilinguals may have two different views of time's direction – particularly if they learn both languages from an early age. "
@skinnylatte ok whoa, so I haven’t read this yet (edit just did) but this reminds me of my own experience that I struggle to communicate… when I imagine the order of the days in my mind’s eye the days progress from right to left, the opposite direction in most calendars I’ve seen. Languages that read from right to left also make intuitive sense to me even though I’m a native English speaker… this looks like a really interesting article!!
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