Honestly, I have never thought of this question before. I always think that I perceive the world by watching, touching, thinking or simply living. I have never put writing in my list of ways of perceiving the world.
However, after reading the chapter and thinking about my own experience, I think I can somewhat understand it a little. Language has idioms most of which represent the way the country think. When I learn Chinese when I was a baby, I learn those idioms and begin to know what are right and what are wrong. I guess that is the most important relationship between language and how I perceive the world.
In Chinese, we have an idiom”your words are just like you”, so I think writing mostly influences your image in others’ eyes. I guess it changes the way others treat you and so it affects how you feel about the world. For me, I think writing help me imagine and think in a better-formed way. It makes me to understand something more clearly.
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