Conlangery #92: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

We go over the basic premise of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and it’s (limited) usefulness to naturalistic conlanging, with a couple of tangents here and there.

Top of Show Greeting: Danish (translated by Samuel Kilsholm)

Links and Resources:

• Wikipedia entry on linguistic relativity
• Linguistic determinism
• Experimental languages
• Verb framing
• Eskimo snow word myth
• NPR story on study of German and Spanish descriptions of bridges