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Conlangery #92: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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Is Your Language Limited by What Words You Have?

There are circumstances where something that's culturally important to speakers of a language could produce lots of words for something. If your language, for whatever reason, needs a word for something, then it can easily be coined or borrowed from another language. So it's not really, definitely, you can say people aren't usually limited by what words they have. Maybe, maybe if those words make up a system,. There's the whole controversy of about paraha, not having numerals. And perhaps that could be an instance. But as far as actual conception of it or actual, you know, your eyes being better anything is possible.

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