Steven Pinker Quotes

Another Reason We Know That Language Could Not Determine Thought Is That When A Language Isn't Up To The Conceptual Demands Of Its Speakers, They Don't Scratch Their Heads Dumbfounded (at Least Not For Long); They Simply Change The Language. They Stretch It With Metaphors And Metonyms, Borrow Words And Phrases From Other Languages, Or Coin New Slang And Jargon. (When You Think About It, How Else Could It Be? If People Had Trouble Thinking Without Language, Where Would Their Language Have Come From-a Committee Of Martians?) Unstoppable Change Is The Great Given In Linguistics, Which Is Not Why Linguists Roll Their Eyes At Common Claims Such As That German Is The Optimal Language Of Science, That Only French Allows For Truly Logical Expression, And That Indigenous Languages Are Not Appropriate For The Modern World. As Ray Harlow Put It, It's Like Saying, Computers Were Not Discussed In Old English; Therefore Computers Cannot Be Discussed In Modern English.

Steven Pinker Quotes: Another Reason We Know That Language Could Not Determine Thought Is That When A Language Isn't Up To The Conceptual

Steven Pinker Quotes: Another Reason We Know That Language Could Not Determine Thought Is That When A Language Isn't Up To The Conceptual

Steven Pinker Quotes: Another Reason We Know That Language Could Not Determine Thought Is That When A Language Isn't Up To The Conceptual

Steven Pinker Quotes: Another Reason We Know That Language Could Not Determine Thought Is That When A Language Isn't Up To The Conceptual

Steven Pinker Quotes: Another Reason We Know That Language Could Not Determine Thought Is That When A Language Isn't Up To The Conceptual

Steven Pinker Quotes: Another Reason We Know That Language Could Not Determine Thought Is That When A Language Isn't Up To The Conceptual

Steven Pinker Quotes: Another Reason We Know That Language Could Not Determine Thought Is That When A Language Isn't Up To The Conceptual

Steven Pinker Quotes: Another Reason We Know That Language Could Not Determine Thought Is That When A Language Isn't Up To The Conceptual

Steven Pinker Quotes: Another Reason We Know That Language Could Not Determine Thought Is That When A Language Isn't Up To The Conceptual

Steven Pinker Quotes: Another Reason We Know That Language Could Not Determine Thought Is That When A Language Isn't Up To The Conceptual

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