{"id":455,"date":"2008-02-26T00:15:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T08:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymindonbooks.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2008-02-26T00:15:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T08:15:01","slug":"language-log-on-the-whorfian-hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymindonbooks.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Language Log on the Whorfian hypothesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post at the Language Log on the Whorfian hypothesis: <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/005413.html\">&#8220;Poor, arid, and, in appearance, deformed&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least in lexicographic terms, the Indo-European languages do not, contrary to what Whorf says, share a linguistic history that predisposes their speakers unconsciously to a particular physics of time, distance, velocity and so on. 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