People can -- and ought to -- think thoughts beyond what's expressible in the languages they know.
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Languages can make some thoughts more easy to express than others, and structure concepts in particular ways, but this is all on the level of a habit. Habits can be easy to fall into, and hard to break, but they don't have to be the boss of you.
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The way I feel about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is similar to how I feel when the Geena Davis Institute talks about gender representation in media. I'm generally in favour of their mission and when they say "If she can see it, she can be it," I don't have a problem with it.
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When other people state a similar concept in the negative phrasing "If she can't see it, she can't be it" then my response is "Whoa! No!" It's not the same thing at all. It's a denial of human agency, the power of imagination, and my lived experience.
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I've spent many years becoming the type of person I want to become, based on my imagination. A lot of the time, there haven't been role models for what I want to become, or demonstrations of skills I want to improve. I've been the first, in my local area at least.
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Don't let the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, or the languages you speak, or the lack of media representation or role models limit what you think is possible. There are so many possibilities beyond them.
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strangeattractor Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
If you want to read more of the hottakeapalooza,
@vgr has a list of threads here:https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1205983999274840064 …strangeattractor added,
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strangeattractor Retweeted strangeattractor
I've made it up to number 41, an opinion about a blog post about human echolocation, in my thread. I'll pause and reflect on the experience so far.https://twitter.com/strangeattracto/status/1207990031224393732 …
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100 opinions is a lot of opinions to have about anything! I was curious as to what topic other people might want to read 100 tweets from me about, and when
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I had a lot of opinions stored up, and I managed to make it to about number 25 pretty quickly. After that, I slowed down. Generating more opinions feels like wringing them out somehow, and searching for topics to opine about.
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Hehe you hit the famous tweet 3r wall
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