He believes in Sapir–Whorf hypothesis

>He believes in Sapir–Whorf hypothesis

I bet many here do, they just don't understand what the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is hehe

i think it's bullshit, but that's probably because as an english-speaker i'm not prone to relativistic thinking

Nice.

I don't watch star trek

>using some shitty name name instead of a descriptive name
It's called linguistic relativism and it obviously exists, the extent is the question.

The fact that language influences worldview is a common sense concept. It's hard to prove but it 's something you notice as you study more languages. How's first year of college going user?

This essentially. The strong form is obviously false, and the weak form is obviously correct.

Recommend a full spread of photon torpedos

I remember in philosophy class we talked about this and the "proof" given was that in Russia they have no word for "personal space" and therefore are friendly being close to each other or some stupid shit like that.