CreativeChaos
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Here is a clip from an article on language and culture from http://anthro.palomar.edu/language/language_5.htm:
For those of you who are multi-lingual, or have traveled broadly, how true do you think this is? What are your thoughts about the article?
Language is more than just a means of communication. It influences our culture and even our thought processes. During the first four decades of the 20th century, language was viewed by American linguists and anthropologists as being more important than it actually is in shaping our perception of reality. This was mostly due to Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf who said that language predetermines what we see in the world around us. In other words, language acts like a polarizing lens on a camera in filtering reality--we see the real world only in the categories of our language.
For those of you who are multi-lingual, or have traveled broadly, how true do you think this is? What are your thoughts about the article?