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Chapter 3: Dr. Marian elaborates on the distinction between linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity (coined by Sapir-Whorf in 1929 and employed by Deutscher, 2002), outlining the academic pushback against the former and examples on memory codification accuracy and speed of recalling in support of the latter. Our perception of reality is relative to the linguistic patterns in which we construct it
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Chapter 3: Sapir-Whorf: We cut up nature and organise it into concepts, ascribing varying significances as we are all parties to the to the same sociocultural agreement encoded in linguistic patterns. Two-folded challenge to 'just translate it': absence if appropriate vocabulary and constraints on sociocultural norms that cannot be bypassed within the same linguistic cognitive architecture
— Oct 18, 2026 01:46PM