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People give him grief over it, but Stallman has always been very picky about how and what words are used when describing things related to computers. The words
by barbariangrunge 4y ago
People give him grief over it, but Stallman has always been very picky about how and what words are used when describing things related to computers. The words we use change how we think (and even determine what we can think)
- KMag 4y ago> and even determine what we can think The strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been discredited. People can and do easily create new phrases to describe new concepts that don't exist in any language they speak.
- sieabahlpark 4y ago[dead]
- SilasX 4y agoEdit: redacted, I (bizarrely) missed what the parent was replying to.
- KMag 4y agoLanguage determining what we can think is the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.