debunking Sapir Whorf

Adam Pressler adampopulist at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 5 15:13:55 PST 2000


--- Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> wrote:


> I don't know that there's any objective evidence for
> Whorf's
> hypothesis, but it's certainly not absurd on its
> face, and
> it does not concern how many words the Inuit have
> for snow.

During my research on Sapir-Whorf, I came across an interesting paper that cites and describes a study that seems to support S-W, at least a "soft" S-W.

Link:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~skoyles/swh.html

Have fun

Adam

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