Comment by lucb1e

1 month ago

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.