Benjamin Lee Whorf is my Great-Great-Grandfather! What a spectacular man, I wish could've met him.

I am here after watching arrival movie. Movie was really good.

Here after watching arrival. Mind blowing.

I am here because I am learning Buddhism ☸️, and am getting humbler everyday when it comes to understanding reality.

language is fascinating. not just spoken word but any form of communication.a humans ability to recognise sequence and interpret that sequence as information is incredible. you take a child who is deaf and they will learn to communicate through sign language. two people can have a full conversation using sign language with no sound whatsoever, yet to most of us this is completely alien. i find it fascinating how we learn to interpret patterns and sequences and how far could it go.

Dude you are our saviour for our psychology exam!

Sapir said thought-culture-lenguage was a triad, all linked together. He was right, however his critics attacked him on the issue of transformation and determinism, two points he was not all that opposed as people belive

Hi Luis, I love your question and it is related to my thesis. I say without any doubt if you want to really study a culture there is no truer way to study it than via the experience of actually speaking the language. The culture is embodied in the (experience of the) language, otherwise it would be like being an expert race car driver who had never driven a car but only studied all manuals related to driving. Or reading books on yoga but never actually doing it.

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Was surprised by The xx in the credits. Good music taste bro!

To answer the question, I believe that studying and being able to speak a language of another culture is the first step to understand this other culture. The different grammar, pronunciation and sentence structure etc. represents parts of this culture. What's more, it is the sense of belongings that increase your culture awareness when you speak this language!:)

Thank you!

the sun rose and i gave a rose to Ann - not ambiguous because of the context

thank you soooooo much

Is there an actual empirical research about the colours, did the Japanese speakers actually not see, percept the difference between green and blue or they were simply asked to categorize the colours?

The topic piqued my interest when I watched the movie, " Arrival" .

Well, recent re-readings of the Sapir-Whorf have argued that maybe the theory was not so "drastic" to begin with - that Sapir accounted for evolution, transformation and interpenetration of such linguistic worldviews more than his critic would believe.

This guy has a cool last name 🤨

particular agreed upon (unconscious) reference points that you assume (as they assume) are pivotal or supreme.

I’m here after watching the arrival