Haven't watched the movie but I'm vaguely familiar with the plot and I'm a linguist (who did a lot of cognitive linguistics during my time at the university). T

Haven't watched the movie but I'm vaguely familiar with the plot and I'm a linguist (who did a lot of cognitive linguistics during my time at the university). The movie is based around the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis[0] (aka. linguistic determinism) which has been disproven time and time again. However, there seems to be at least some truth to the weaker version (aka. linguistic relativity) but it's still hotly debated to what extent and in which areas. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity