Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds the house of his consciousness.
--Benjamin Lee Whorf, Language, Thought, and Reality
Monday, December 28, 2009
Quote of the Day (12/28/09) (Benjamin Lee Whorf Week)
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