hello all,
>
> Sapir-Whorf.... really?
> this hypothesis has been proved wrong already long time ago ....
> however, there is a connection between language and our ways of thinking that has been explored empirically
> but it is not in the way Whorf has described it.
>
> this NYT article by 'Guy Deutscher' :-)
> summarizes it well.
>
> From The New York Times:
>
> Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
>
> The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?mwrsm=Email
>
> best ....
>
> Ursula Tischner
> Econcept
> Cologne
>
> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
>
>
> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
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