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A kind of geeky thing I’d never heard of (that has nothing to do with ‘Star Trek’)


Yesterday, JohnD left a comment on a blog post that mentioned the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, of which I had never heard,

It goes something like this:

The linguistic relativity principle, or the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis,[1] is the idea that differences in the way languages encode cultural and cognitive categories affect the way people think, so that speakers of different languages will tend to think and behave differently depending on the language they use.

Could someone please explain this better to me?

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