Believe me, native English speakers do not think about the definite-ness of a word. We just knows that "the" comes before some things and not others and it soun

Believe me, native English speakers do not think about the definite-ness of a word. We just knows that "the" comes before some things and not others and it sounds odd when someone gets it wrong. My argument is that these differences are cosmetic, not that they don't exist. Also, Sapir-Worf is not at all referring to minor grammatical issues of this kind.