Does Your Language Change Your View Of The World?

Is that bridge sexy, or is it just the linguistic relativity? Humans use language to make sense of their surroundings, which has led some people to argue that the language you use affects the way you see the world. This is a very popular but also very contentious notion known as linguistic relativity, or the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. In this episode of Babbel Explains, we separate fact from fiction on just how much the limits of our language determines the limits of our world.

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Very good description, of the ideas and the controversy. Chinese doesn't have past tense or future tense. But it has ways to indicate that an event has happened or will happen. In both languages (English and Chinese), some things are explicit and other things are implied. They are just different things.