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by Maxatar 415 days ago
The Sapir Whorf hypothesis has long been debunked:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

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The strong hypothesis has been debunked, yes, but nobody is asserting it.

From your link:

> Nevertheless, research has produced positive empirical evidence supporting a weaker version of linguistic relativity:[5][4] that a language's structures influence a speaker's perceptions, without strictly limiting or obstructing them.