The Sapir-Whorf theory. The strong form claims that grammar matters, but Orwell's Newspeak Appendix to 1984 outlines the weak form that vocabulary matters: when Newspeak is finished, the Declaration of Independence can only be translated into one word: "crimespeak." https://t.co/yzW0UUBanh
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Ok. I'll give you an example. I used to live in Poland. Polish has no indefinate/definate article (an apple vs the apple). Despite me explaining at length, I could not make my intelligent Polish friends grasp this concept. They just didn't get it.
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I had the same experience with a Korean friend of mine in law school. Korean also has no indefinate/definate article. She just couldn't understand no matter how much I said. Just wasn't wired in her.
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People think in languages. Grammar structures thought patterns. Personally, I think it's pretty clear.
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