We don’t always say exactly what we mean, and it has nothing to do with being polite. A new study suggests that the order in which we construct our thoughts is consistent, regardless of the language we speak.
“He drinks water,” is what English speakers say, using the grammatical setup that consists of subject-verb-object. Yet that is not necessarily what we think.
Instead, according to a team led by University of Chicago researchers, humans may impose a natural order on events, thinking of them in terms of subject-object-verb.
