ARE SPANISH BRIDGES STRONGER THAN GERMAN BRIDGES?

ARE SPANISH BRIDGES STRONGER THAN GERMAN BRIDGES? I posted here on a review of Guy Deutscher’s book THROUGH THE LANGUAGE GLASS. Guy Deutscher had an article in the New York Times Magazine (August 26) on the very controversial issue of whether your language can shape your thinking. Deutscher presents experimental evidence that the gender of a word can shape how people think about the word: “When speakers were asked to grade various objects on a range of characteristics, Spanish speakers deemed bridges, clocks and violins to have more “manly properties” like strength, but Germans tended to think of them as more slender or elegant.”