Thaths wrote:
"Some 50 years ago, the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson pointed out a
crucial fact about differences between languages in a pithy maxim:
“Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they
may convey.” ... if different languages influence our minds in different
ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but
rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=Guy%20Deutscher&st=cse
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=Guy%20Deutscher&st=cse#story-continues-2>RELATED
- Letters: You Are What You SpeakSEPT. 10, 2010
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/magazine/12letters-t-YOUAREWHATYO_LETTERS.html>
Interesting concepts, but the article leaves me with one large question:
"Was George Orwell right or not?"
The article seems to have it both ways.
Cheers,
Bruce
