Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - 1 views
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Kerry O'Connor on 16 Feb 11This article displays the debate that we will be discussing in class tomorrow. The main point that I would like to point out is that the author says that the classic linguist who first came up with this idea some 60 years ago did not support any of the evidence for his claim and did not think very clearly about it. For instance, he claimed that if a culture doesn't have a word for something, it cannot be understood by those people. Not true!