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To: Palter
Do English, Indonesian, Russian and Turkish speakers end up attending to, understanding, and remembering their experiences differently simply because they speak different languages?
Someone discovered the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, again. In other news, water found to be wet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
3 posted on 07/23/2010 7:31:14 PM PDT by casuist (Audi alteram partem)
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To: casuist
Someone discovered the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, again.

I had a similar first thought.

(Next they'll re-invent Loglan)

17 posted on 07/24/2010 8:45:41 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 546 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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