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Does the language you speak change how you think?
Tom Scott
Tom Scott, with linguists Gretchen McCulloch and Molly Ruhl, examines whether the language you speak changes how you think. The short answer is mostly no, with caveats about the weak version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
Linked as a concise, accessible rebuttal whenever linguistic relativity comes up in a thread.
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