[...] the ethos of those who spoke and documented the language of a region informed the thinking of its users way down the line. Japanese Haiku don't really work in English because the language is informed by a different sensibility. I guess one could say it's a chicken or egg situation but I prefer to see it as language and culture existing in a symbiotic relationship. It's said that Korea's alphabet is highly scientific (read: formulaic) and in turn that has brought forward suggestions that the language is why the nation is so technologically forward thinking. Essentially a language is a way of translating the world around us so we can share ideas amongst peers. If the initial inventors and most prolific users of a language experience the world in a specific way then they create an ideology within the language. That ideology then informs the growth and culture of the society that speaks it.