ru...@yahoo.com writes: > Fashion changes in science as well as clothes. :-)
A favourite line of crackpots who think that their ridiculous position is not held by others merely because of "fashion". > I wouldn't count > Sapir-Whorf out yet... > http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html That researcher does not say that language *constrains* thought, which was the assertion of the OP and of the strict form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. She merely says that it may influence thought. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list