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Good Fiction, Questionable Science: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Very cool column for those who love thinking about alien languages, future languages, and other forms of conlang. Works like “Arrival” and “Embassytown” go straight to the heart of this topic.
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This entry was posted in Journalism, Langauge, Social sf, World on November 16, 2019 by Professor Arielle Saiber.

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