Comment by corimaith
14 days ago
I would caution to point of that the Strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is debunked; Language may influence your understanding, but it's not deterministic and just means more words to explain a concept for any language.
14 days ago
I would caution to point of that the Strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is debunked; Language may influence your understanding, but it's not deterministic and just means more words to explain a concept for any language.
Sure! I like to think of it as observing the same scene from different vantage points. Languages develop to describe the world around them, so different languages may treat the same subject differently depending on how those the speakers of those language interact with those subjects.