Word: whorf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...femaleness vary from place to place. As she explained later: "It was a simple-a very simple-point to which our materials were organized in the 1920s, merely the documentation over and over of the fact that human nature is not rigid and unyielding." Linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf contributed to cultural relativism by stating that different linguistic groups conceive reality in different ways, that the way they think shapes the language they speak and vice versa...
...CAROLINE WHORF Los Angeles...