Thursday, April 19, 2007

Post twenty-three, LTI

From the Wikipedia article on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis:

"Karl Kerenyi began his 1976 English language translation of Dionysus with this passage:
'The interdependence of thought and speech makes it clear that languages are not so much a means of expressing truth that has already been established, but are a means of discovering truth that was previously unknown. Their diversity is a diversity not of sounds and signs but of ways of looking at the world. "'

Meta-amusing to post this in the one world that is entirely delineated by language--the internet.

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