jansegersMany people gathered at Sapir's lecture, and one of them was the young chemist Benjamin Lee Whorf, who was keenly interested in linguistics. Whorf worked in an insurance company and often had to talk to victims of fires. Talking with workers in the warehouse of gasoline tanks that described the cause of the fire, Whorf concluded that people perceive objects not as their senses indicate, but as they are presented by language . If the barrel says "Water", then you can throw an unlabeled cigarette butt, despite the fact that the barrel for a mile carries gasoline and the water floats well-distinguishable gasoline film. If, next to an empty barrel, hang the ad "No smoking! Gasoline!", People will evaluate the safe environment as dangerous and frightening.
мы есть то, что мы говорим
" Американские ученые, проанализировав статистику боев с японцами во Второй мировой войне, обнаружили, что войска США побеждали чаще. Причину нашли в длине слов английского и японского языков. В английском языке средняя длина слова составляет пять букв, а в японском - тринадцать. То есть пока…