# Does learning a secondary language change the way you think?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-learning-a-secondary-language-change-the-way-you-think/369064>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 17, 2006, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-learning-a-secondary-language-change-the-way-you-think/369064 "2006-08-17T08:43:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-learning-a-secondary-language-change-the-way-you-think/369064/41 "2006-08-19T18:20:03Z")

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> [@brujaja](#):
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> I was watching a program on Mexican UFO’s, and a pilot was explaining how a UFO experience was affecting him as a pilot, and I remember he used the word “pasar” which was translated as “airspace”.

Mexicans have UFOs? :eek:

[Buck Turgidson]\*\*Mr. President, we’ve got to close the UFO gap![/\*\*Buck Turgidson]

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