Saturday, August 28, 2010

Say what?

Article in the New York Times Magazine regarding theories of how ones language shapes ones thought.

2 comments:

Tam said...

This is why Noam Chomsky is crazy.

That's where he spends his workday, and it has made him nucking futz.

I remember Marko talking about one of his visits home, where he was conversing with relatives and tried to tell them something and realized that there was no real way to convey the thought in German.

NotClauswitz said...

I was gonna raise the ghoulish spectre of Noam Chomsky, or else the spectral goulash of Gnome Chumsky...