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Language affects how you think, there is no question about that. Quite to the contrary, it is an old and tired notion which has been refuted and refuted and re
by pfedor 14y ago
Language affects how you think, there is no question about that.
Quite to the contrary, it is an old and tired notion which has been refuted and refuted and refuted (see, e.g., the third chapter of "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker) and yet it can't die because some people just find it too appealing to let go.
- coldtea 14y agoOnly the refutation is not very convincing. Not everybody agrees to Anglo-Saxon postulates on language.