Comment by yawnxyz
1 month ago
As someone who frequently thinks in both English and Chinese, I wonder if this "proves" that the Whorfian hypothesis is correct, or maybe at least more efficient?
1 month ago
As someone who frequently thinks in both English and Chinese, I wonder if this "proves" that the Whorfian hypothesis is correct, or maybe at least more efficient?
Saving others a web search for some random name...
> Linguistic relativity asserts that language influences worldview or cognition. [...] Various colloquialisms refer to linguistic relativism: the Whorf hypothesis; the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis; the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis; and Whorfianism. [...] Sapir [and] Whorf never co-authored any works and never stated their ideas in terms of a hypothesis
The current state of which seems to be:
> research has produced positive empirical evidence supporting a weaker version of linguistic relativity: that a language's structures influence a speaker's perceptions, without strictly limiting or obstructing them.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity