Comment on The State of the 7,168 Living Languages: 14% are dyingparentComments−serf2ylanguages facilitate different modes of thinking, I suppose one of the dangers in letting less commonly used languages die off is that it would seemingly promote more homogeneity in human thought.−zilti2yThe influence of language on thought is marginal; theories like sapphir-whorf have been falsified many times.
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languages facilitate different modes of thinking, I suppose one of the dangers in letting less commonly used languages die off is that it would seemingly promote more homogeneity in human thought.
The influence of language on thought is marginal; theories like sapphir-whorf have been falsified many times.