/lit/ - Literature

>>18175115
>sapir-whorf hypothesis
Every time I hear people talk about this they get really indignant and moralistic about it, like it's some kind of evil... Isn't anyone who has learned two languages, and read a book in one language and then it's translation, or translated a book themselves, aware of the way different words in different languages produce different thoughts, evoke different connotations? When I read a work in Middle English, with its different syntax, it creates different mental gestures and associations... veni vidi vici is not the same tangible thing as I came I saw I conquered, arete is not virtue.

>>12056510
Ummm sweetie Wittgenstein didn't have mistresses... he had masters ;)