{"id":743,"date":"2010-08-30T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2010-08-30T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T13:35:13","slug":"another-post-on-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Another post on language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I ran across this <a href=\"http:\/\/iwantanewleft.typepad.com\/i-want-a-new-left\/2010\/07\/an-interesting-article-on-language-and-thought.html\">web post<\/a>. Yesterday, I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/29\/magazine\/29language-t.html?_r=2&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all\">this article<\/a>, which is excerpted from a new book I&#8217;m going to have to read. Fascinating stuff.<\/p>\n<p>My personal take on Sapir-Whorf is that language doesn&#8217;t provide an absolute limit to what you can think about. Instead, it limits what you can think about <em>easily<\/em>. If the first were true, then how would <em>any<\/em> new concept make it into language in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>An interesting personal sidelight is that I remember having an absolute internal compass until about the age of 11. That was about the time my family left England &#8211; I wonder if I&#8217;d internalized the subliminal clues where I lived, and coming back to the US changed the clues enough to disrupt my compass for good?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I ran across this web post. Yesterday, I ran across this article, which is excerpted from a new book I&#8217;m going to have to read. Fascinating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-its-all-about-me","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}