Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?

Den 31. mar. 2009 kl. 19.37 skreiv Brett Williams:

> It's possible to think something unsupported by language, in other
> words, but it is relatively difficult to sustain such a thought, to
> remember it,
Nevertheless it is a useful thing to do, because it may make it
easier to exploit your ability, inherited from your wordless
ancestors, to deeply understand physical nature, which is non-verbal
in character.

> and very difficult to express it to another person.
That is true. In my youth I was even much less verbal than I'm now. I
understood relativity theory with relative ease, but chatting up
girls, that was another matter, not to mention explaining the theory
to others.

As for Sapir-Whorf, I think that if the Sapir-Whorf effect is not
valid, there really isn't any much point in having all this variety
of languages, is there? So I tend to prefer to believe in it.

LEF

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