Posted: May 17, 2011 7:51 am
Wow, is somebody resurrecting strong Sapir-Whorf? I see katza z is dealing with it satisfactorily. Go, go, team linguistics!
Reminds me of teaching Linguistics 101, please sir, is it true that the Hopi don't have tense, and therefore can't talk about time? Language X doesn't have a word for blue, so does that mean that they can't see blue? And Cockney often uses the historic present, so Cockerknees find the past a very hard concept to grasp. I'm going round the johnny 'orner, innit, guv, when I see this geezer standing, and I thinks, mmm, he looks like an advocate of strong Sapir-Whorf. Cor blimey.
Reminds me of teaching Linguistics 101, please sir, is it true that the Hopi don't have tense, and therefore can't talk about time? Language X doesn't have a word for blue, so does that mean that they can't see blue? And Cockney often uses the historic present, so Cockerknees find the past a very hard concept to grasp. I'm going round the johnny 'orner, innit, guv, when I see this geezer standing, and I thinks, mmm, he looks like an advocate of strong Sapir-Whorf. Cor blimey.