Starting with slide 53 "External Reality"
External reality is referring to linguistic relativity which shows the differences in language as evidence(external reality)it varies according to the langugae being used to talk about it.
Slide 55 "Kinship names" meaning relationship between entities that share a genealogical origin through biological, cultural or historical descent. In the slide it shows is how these kinship names differ in different languages as in father, uncle and grandmother
Slide 56 "Differ culture by culture"
This part of the slide explains that concepts of time in different languages differ by culture.
Slide 61 "Masculine"
The word masculine in this slide is referring to linguistic relativity, explaining to us how in some tribes each noun is grammatically marked by gender.
Slide 62 "Snow on the ground"
This expression refers to the Inuit people using this expression to create a number of snow related phenomenon.
Slide 63 "Lexicalized"
Meaning like in English we lexicalize conceptual distinctions of snow, meaning we express it in a single word like slush, sleet or ice however in other langauges used by the Inuit people they use many words for the same word.
Slide 68 "Born to run"
In this slide born to run is the name of the album by Bruce Springsteen
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