That is interesting, Mrrzy. Do you by any chance have a link you could provide?

The link between language and conceptualization is pretty fascinating. Conceptualization and perception mutually influence one another.

A number of years ago I read a book called "An Eternity of Species" that was basically a collection of biographies about the New World naturalists of the 17th, 18th, and early 19th century who collected and identified New World species of flora and fauna. Before the explosion of technologies that heralded the Industrial Age, it was possible to be a generalist expert whose knowledge covered pretty much all that was factually known, as well as a good working knowledge of most plausible scientific theories based on the data available at the time.   Sometimes I'm jealous.