Pay does not necessarily have anything to do with money; it can mean "give" or "bestow upon". This is what's wrong with applications of Sapir-Whorf -- it's alw

Pay does not necessarily have anything to do with money; it can mean "give" or "bestow upon". This is what's wrong with applications of Sapir-Whorf -- it's always used to argue for evidence of some preexisting prejudice. If you really want to test it, you'd have to look at a language and make predictions about the people who speak it before meeting them.