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All of those features can lessen ambiguity in other ways though, so that's probably the trade-off at work. Weak linguistic relativity is pretty well attested.
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All of those features can lessen ambiguity in other ways though, so that's probably the trade-off at work.
Weak linguistic relativity is pretty well attested. I've seen people misattribute or assume qualities about unrelated entities that share a name, e.g. assuming that something true of "milk" is also true of "soy milk". That example is similar to the idea of overextending a metaphor, and since every language has its own particular metaphors, that's likely among the most common ways that a linguistic feature impacts our worldview. Whether or not there are syntactic features that do the same is more debatable, but it's plausible that adjective ordering, pronoun systems, etc. might have an effect.