From @Isegoria a look at @JohnHMcWhorter "The Language Hoax" - why English is so weirdly different. Apparently it "refutes the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis" which I find rather sad, if true. But that's okay. I'm going to read it. https://www.isegoria.net/2018/10/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages/ … #languages #English #books
I've tended to believe the hypothesis is false because it seems to falsify history in the sense of the development or genesis of language. If we can only think in our language, how do we come up with new words?
11:03 AM - 10 Oct 2018
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