Conlangery Podcast

Conlangery #92: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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We go over the basic premise of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and it’s (limited) usefulness to naturalistic conlanging, with a couple of tangents here and there.

Top of Show Greeting: Danish (translated by Samuel Kilsholm)

Links and Resources:

  • Wikipedia entry on linguistic relativity
  • Linguistic determinism
  • Experimental languages
  • Verb framing
  • Eskimo snow word myth
  • NPR story on study of German and Spanish descriptions of bridges
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