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The fact that some things are more easily — or better, directly — expressable in some languages doesn’t necessarily imply your thinking is changed or that you c
by sfvisser 4y ago
The fact that some things are more easily — or better, directly — expressable in some languages doesn’t necessarily imply your thinking is changed or that you can’t internalize the concept without access to that language.
I don’t have twenty different words for specific shades of green or types of snow, but can still easily recognize them and use them in my thinking.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoYes, but think about languages that don't have the concept of green, but only a shade of blue that we would call green. This would not stop your ability to describe it, but would change how you relate it to other colors.