Nadelyn Pichardo Perkins Ling 100 800 5 2 13 types of power economic social age gender sex appearance intelligence physical power educational gordon clark sapir whorf hypothesis identity who we decide to be in which contexts who we really are how we want people to think bout us situational considerations we should not be surprised that a pugilist can beat up a philosopher strong version the language you speak determines the thoughts you can think the languages of pao by jack vance weak version neo sw hypothesis the language you speak influences the thoughts you think dan slobin thinking for speaking belowest Made up by Prof Perkins however students understood the meaning of it piranha dont can t learn to count people have tried to teach them and they still don t count these people are numerical idiots the teachers are educational idiots larger language problem communication problem 1 2 3 4 maybe a larger cultural problem lets pretend we can t count ways to maintain in group out group distinction 5 difference in incentives berlin kay both men color terms basic color terms versions of another color can t be named after stuff 2 light dark 3 add red 4 yellow or green 5 add green or yellow 6 add blue 7 add brown 8 pink purple gray red yellow blue purple green violet gray black white orange brown pink beige eleven before we stretched Russian has 12 English is the standard of comparison and men are the standard of comparison
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