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by jonstewart 823 days ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

So it turns out the answer is, it depends. I studied linguistics a bit in college and Sapir-Whorf was then derided (late 90s), though we never got into it. Wiki explains the popularization of linguistic relativism was more due to Whorf (than Sapir), and that perhaps he was a poor scientist.