The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding. — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share
The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because (among other… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share
