FWD (SK) Re: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis ?

From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 20:53:16 MDT

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    > >> There is a linguistic theory--known as the Sapir-Whorf
    > >> hypothesis--that
    > > the structure of a human language sets limits on the thinking of those
    > > who
    > > speak it; hence a language could even place constraints on the

    In one of Martin Gardner's books, he talks about multilingual authors
    who have written multilingual books. The authors must find something
    confining in the normal restriction of a book to one language.

    Jim Lund 

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