Benjamin Lee Whorf
American linguist and anthropologist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
A fair realization of the incredible degree of diversity of linguistic system that ranges over the globe leaves one with an inescapable feeling that the human spirit is inconceivably old; that the few thousand years of history covered by our written records are no more than the thickness of a pencil mark on the scale that measures our past experience on this planet.
—Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist and anthropologist, Science and Linguistics, 1940
Posted on January 27, 2004 at 7:54 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a framework for it.
—Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist and anthropologist
Posted on January 16, 2002 at 7:48 AM
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