pickI think I‘ve found my favorite genre of non-fiction: highly sarcastic, opinionated scholarly writing! I just loved this! Great arguments and also hilarious!
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The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language | 
pickI think I‘ve found my favorite genre of non-fiction: highly sarcastic, opinionated scholarly writing! I just loved this! Great arguments and also hilarious!
pickI think I‘ve found my favorite genre of non-fiction: highly sarcastic, opinionated scholarly writing! I just loved this! Great arguments and also hilarious!
so-so⭐️⭐️⭐️ McWhorter sets out to disprove the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. Yeah, I had to look that up, too. In short, he disagrees that people who speak different languages have differing perceptions. He delves into such details as color distinctions, the presence/absence of tenses, numbers, groupings, time orientation, the complexity of native languages vs developed language, and so on. Insightful, but the organization was too scattered. Confusing AF.
panThis is the first McWhorter I haven‘t enjoyed, not because I disagree with him but because I didn‘t understand the way he put forth his argument.
He takes on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which says that culture follows language. McWhorter says that language develops to fit a culture, which intuitively makes more sense to me, but the book left me more confused after I read it than I was before. 👎🏻👎🏻 #audiobook
No #friyayintro today, so a #cleaningbookstack instead. I'm going back to handbok after my next one, because internet needs to be shelved, european travel is NEXT YAY, I think Lucas is reading language hoax, I think he finished night's daughter, and evolving english is also in need of reshelving.
Another great one that I highly recommend. #linguistics #language
John McWhorter is my ~favorite linguist~ and I‘m loving this little book about how the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis/NeoWhorfism is a shitty, racist theory.
