isn't this the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? I remember in linguistics class my professor spent an entire lecture on how it was so controversial. It's a pretty comm

isn't this the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? I remember in linguistics class my professor spent an entire lecture on how it was so controversial. It's a pretty common-sense idea but neither of the two guys who developed it are linguists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/supplement2.html http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/supplement2.htm...