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Benjamin Lee Whorf - Language, Thought, and Reality https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/language-thought-and-reality-0 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/language-thoug

• sho 9y ago
  He's the guy for whom the Sapir-Whorf hypotheis - that the languages we use can themselves shape what we say and even how we think, an idea I think is 100% true. Which brings me to one of my favourite scifi epics - the Culture series, the titular people (and machines) of which consciously designed their language Marain to encode desirable aspects of reasonableness and peaceableness according to that very hypothesis. Nice connection!
  • Sone7 9y ago
    Agreed, I think it's very hard to deny at this point. Careful what you say :D Thank you for reminding me to read the Culture series. I've put it on my list for many other reasons, and now I have a new one :)