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>From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: Sapir-Whorf
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"Mike Gunther" writes:
>
>A language and its culture grow up together;  so much of any culture
>is expressed linguistically that it is very hard to disentangle the
>two.  In learning another language we inevitably pick up the culture
>which is expressed through the medium of that language.  What seems
>to be lacking is the ability to identify and predict the effects of
>language and culture separately.

   This is because the language and the culture are not completely
seperable, and by learning a language you must understand the concepts
that are part of the language.

   By learning about the language that deals with computer architecture,
my mechanic will learn about computer architecture.  But more importantly,
by learning about computer architecture my mechanic will either learn about
the language that deals with it, or (italics here) he will invent his own 
language.
--scott


