5Rule of Reaction
On Jeopardy! Alex Trebec once prompted, In the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, this ability of humans shapes how we view reality. If you had blurted out “Double-jointedness!” or “Taco Tongue!” you would’ve lost and not just because you forgot to phrase your response in the form of a question. The correct answer: What is Linguistic Relativity?
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis of linguistic relativity is a principle that claims that our language structure can determine our worldview. In other words, our perspective and perceptions are relative to our spoken language, which sounds a little like what my astrophysicist friend Jeff Bennett said about applying the Theory of Relativity — the context of the sender and receiver are always changing ...
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