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  @sjw Well yea, lang is more than people think it is.
  
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  I've always figured your native language actually shapes how you think about things, and that native speakers of different languages (particularly languages of different families) conceptualize ideas in fundamentally different ways.
  
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  Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 20:57:38 JST Sick Sun
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  @sjw He is talking about the Piraha people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language#Pirah%C3%A3_and_linguistic_relativity
  
  although I am not sure about the John Locke connection.
  
  Supposedly Piraha asked an anthropologist to teach them numbers because of their inability to count past 4 they were being swindled by traders.
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    Pirahã language
    
    Pirahã (also spelled Pirahá, Pirahán), or Múra-Pirahã, is the indigenous language of the isolated Pirahã people of Amazonas, Brazil. The Pirahã live along the Maici River, a tributary of the Amazon River. Pirahã is the only surviving dialect of the Mura language; all others having died out in the last few centuries as most groups of the Mura people have shifted to Portuguese. Suspected relatives, such as Matanawi, are also extinct. Pirahã is estimated to have between 250 and 380 speakers. It is not in immediate danger of extinction, as its use is vigorous and the Pirahã community is mostly monolingual. The Pirahã language is most notable as the subject of various controversial claims; for example, that it provides evidence against linguistic relativity. The controversy is compounded by the sheer difficulty of learning the language; the number of linguists with field experience in Pirahã is very small. Endonyms Speakers refer to their language as Apáitisí, and to their own ethnic group as ...
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  Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 21:02:20 JST Sick Sun
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  @Hoss @dcc @sjw This is called the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, there is a strong and weak version of it that people believe. Strong is your language literally nearly prevents you from learning concepts you don't have words for, the weaker version where you are nudged toward and away from concepts by your language is more popular but some people don't think it's true at all. My experience with Japanese leads me to believe that different languages do make you think differently like you say but doesn't hard-prevent you from thinking anything. When I was a conversational Japanese speaker I tried to not translate in my brain but to think in Japanese and I noticed it made some things feel less, or more, natural.
  
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