[SpaceBar]

There is a somewhat related phenomenon recognized by anthropologists, linguists and computer programmers, that vocabulary translates directly into the “dynamic range” of thought. Cultures for example that have no word for something simply never discuss it.

[MestaMachine]

There is an exception to every rule. In the arab language, there is no word for homosexual or homosexuality even though it is so rampant, it is virtually a way of life, as is pedophilia.
Yet you will often hear of homosexuals being publicly stoned or hung for being OUTWARDLY homosexual.

[blam]

"There is a somewhat related phenomenon recognized by anthropologists, linguists and computer programmers, that vocabulary translates directly into the “dynamic range” of thought. Cultures for example that have no word for something simply never discuss it."

We have words for it:

Propaganda

Indoctrination

[zeugma]

There is a somewhat related phenomenon recognized by anthropologists, linguists and computer programmers, that vocabulary translates directly into the “dynamic range” of thought. Cultures for example that have no word for something simply never discuss it.

Must mean that eskimos talked about snow a lot!