The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is not "startling" and hasn't been for a while and it's kind of a backdoor for racismhttps://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/630954335996874752 …
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I mean Chinese also lacks gendered pronouns and yet historically China has been a hella fuckin sexist culture so idk
In Persian the feminine pronoun is collective yet Iran is slightly short of feminist utopia @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect also Chinese no more "lacks a future tense" than English does, mostly, like in English, it's markers rather than "tenses"
@arthur_affect obv. last oversimplifies, but basic point, Chinese just as capable of describing future as English
@magnus99k The theory is that Chinese people see less of a distinction between the future and the present
@arthur_affect Sigh. I feel the same way about “applying" Sapir-Whorf this way as I do about approximately 100% of evo-psych.
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