Linguistic Relativity: speakers of different languages think and behave differen

Started by Siege, May 27, 2009, 09:24:46 PM

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PDH

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Valmy

Quote from: Queequeg on May 28, 2009, 12:22:02 PM
And Latin?  Most western philosophy and science was in Latin until recently.  I included Latin on my list for the works written AFTER the decline of the Roman Empire (as before the language of the educated was Greek).

Well they used Latin as an intellectual lingua franca but it was not their native tongues.  If you go that route you might include all Jews throughout history as Hebrew speakers.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."