@sapinker If language weren't an acquired skill then maybe that popular idea would have basis in reality. #wedontknowallthewords #wecanlearn
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@sapinker disagree. What about the Amazonian tribe found with no words for numbers just "one" and "a few". Also contradicts#Wittgenstein - 1 more reply
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@sapinker I side with Orwell who perceptively said that if thought corrupts language, language corrupts thought. Not a misguided idea. - 1 more reply
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@sapinker@OxfordWords It's not misguided, it's misdirected.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker thanks for sharing looks like a great book will order itThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker oh my. After reading description this is definitely on the must-read-now list.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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#Language determining thought? Attractive cocktail party factoid at best. Via@sapinkerhttp://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199361588.do#.U80ahjdNbxY.twitter … -
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@jtdlt yeah. Audiobooooookssss
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@sapinker The thoughts must precede the words with which we try to express them. Sometimes we fail: 'Words crack and break with the strain.'Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker language frames the expression of thoughts.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker ...the "lang. hoax" is not only W/ McWhorter but all *misguided* linguists in territorial pissing contestThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Same old story: universalists reject the Sapir-Whorf "hypothesis"; those who believe in lg-specific facts embrace the possibility.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker worth reading
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@sapinker I'm a huge fan of you. These are Japanese versions of your books!pic.twitter.com/Z8ClBnby8U
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@sapinker I'm sure it's a title coincidence that McWhorter is rebutting Sapir-Whorf :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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