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Book Synopsis : Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think, such that each language gives its speakers a different "worldview"?This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world. Linguist John McWhorter argues that while this idea is mesmerizing, it is plainly wrong. Cultural differences are quite real. However, the way languages' grammar world, and the random ways that their vocabularies happen to describe the world?whether time is expresses with vertical expressions instead of horizontal ones, whether a language happens to have a word for stick out or wipe?do not correspond to its speakers' experience of living. The fact that a language has only one word for eat, drink and smoke?as many do? doesn't mean its .

 

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