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Originally Posted by Green_mind
The Sapir Whorf Hypothesis is very interesting, someone has mentioned it on the boards before.
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It's pretty widely discredited; unfortunately, they get a little excited about their salient points and draw inferences that are incredibly deterministic and narrow-minded. Benjamin Whorff was a fascinating character though, there was a wonderful secondary text on him about his days as a salesman. Well worth a read - I couldn't tell you what it was called, but I could tell you where it was located in the library I read it in (2nd floor, the linguistics/ child education section by the door, second cabinet, third shelf down and about 6 from the left).