@JohnBosch68 @whedonworship also that nobody "invents" languages and English has evolved tremendously due to external factors
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yeah. Strong Sapir-Whorf is partly about the idea language affects you more than you affect it
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as though inventing a language that "doesn't have a word for X" wouldn't just lead to coining one
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Replying to @adrienneleigh
sure, anyone who's ever had a thought they "can't put into words" has disproven it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @adrienneleigh
it's def worth pushing back on the implicit classism/elitism that learning educated language means learning how to thibk
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