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> Not to spiral too quickly off-topic, but I wanted to point out that > Sapir-Whorf has been thoroughly discredited, and although it makes for Not thoroughly. Whorf was credited, Sapir wasn't. Which is okay by me because I don't think Sapir even appeared in one episode. Whorf was in at least two of the movies. Now, if it weren't for weak linguistic determinism, how would I have made such a lame Star Trek joke? Thus, Sapir-Whorf has not been thoroughly discredited. :) -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:50 PM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: RE: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint > > Tools do affect the way we think just as languages, a tool of sort, > > affects the way we think. It has less to do with the audience or Not to spiral too quickly off-topic, but I wanted to point out that Sapir-Whorf has been thoroughly discredited, and although it makes for good plotlines in books like "Snow Crash" and lends an air of mysterious authority to persons like Chomsky; the thesis that language shapes cognition is highly overrated. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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