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Fitzy :
I started to notice Nominative Determinism a lot more after learning the name for it.
2026-08-27 15:29:38
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Ethan A-K :
This reminds me of 1984 and how it can work the other way. With newspeak your vocabulary is cut down to an extreme and if there are no words for such things as freedom and justice then you have no way of expressing or understanding these ideas :)
2026-08-28 23:50:13
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Mavix :
Monolingual conversations 😂😂😂
2026-08-28 23:34:22
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Jay K :
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?” - 1984 Orwell
2026-08-28 22:40:13
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Logic Wizard :
Language is the soul or thought, we have to label things. Even though the kid was right: there is no spoon. We gotta put a boundry on things to control it.
2026-08-28 23:16:43
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🇬🇧Vlad's English Zone👅 :
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world” - L. Wittgenstein
2026-08-27 16:02:48
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Jacob - Papa Seahorse 🏳️⚧️🍉 :
this is why people who dislike "labels" are missing the point. having a word for yourself as a shorthand for a complex experience (e.g. being trans, being autistic, having ADHD etc) means you can not only understand yourself better, but also communicate with others
2026-08-27 15:52:31
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DiscoFantasy678 :
I just learned sillage
2026-08-28 12:32:47
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uknowz13 :
Yes I think so. It may well be part of true‘manifestion’. Like the guys that visualised the ‘double helix’ then years later actually discovered it and went in to win a Noble Prize. This suggests to me that we live in ‘an agreed reality’.
2026-08-28 10:27:15
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horrifler :
i feel like this for petrichor
2026-08-27 14:53:28
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Rilun :
it's a pretty heavily criticized theory also, there's not a lot of evidence for it and most modern academics have abandoned it
2026-08-27 15:58:02
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AlexLondon :
Colours is a very good example. Languages have different colours. Japanese didn’t have a word for green until recently. Russian separates blue and light blue like we separate red and pink. Colours in between yellow and orange will be a yellow for British people but orange by French people.
2026-08-27 16:26:43
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Perspicacious :
Is this why everything is “x slop” now? Because “slop” isn’t being used to say it’s many, low quality instances like it started out. It’s grown more vague since it was used for ai pages. It now means basically “more than one” seems like people are just trying to give something a name to bring it down and discredit it. Hate for likes culture and bots seem to do this a lot
2026-08-28 22:11:53
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badgersprite :
Yes. I remember there being a study done that I can’t recall the name of on Russian speakers because they didn’t have an equivalent word for the English concept of “personal space” at the time of the study. Shown the same scenarios people who spoke English were far more likely to observe infringements on personal space whereas Russian speakers would look at a woman reacting badly to a guy getting much too close to her and would just say oh she thinks he’s ugly.
2026-08-28 01:46:00
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Pol Freijo :
Is wording the only path to conceptualization?
2026-08-27 22:28:49
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ConallA2M :
VSauce pushing the strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis on my fyp
2026-08-27 19:39:36
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sentinelle13 :
scientist trying out philosophy 😂😂😂
2026-08-27 17:41:58
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‹ 🎹 .ᐟ 𓂃 lvd 𐂯 🦇 ✦ ・﹒ :
taking this as a reminder to speak up!
2026-08-27 23:39:21
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Natalie Snelson :
This is like languages having names for different colours! English speakers can better distinguish between pink and red but not light and dark blue (like in Spanish)
2026-08-28 04:16:18
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mctco riki :
May I ask what episode this is from?
2026-08-27 15:49:55
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call me alan :
does anyone have books you recommend for this topic?
2026-08-27 23:03:44
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seanflotre :
i gotta say the more birds i learn about, the more birds I see. i live in Vancouver and i spotted a mourning dove a few days ago. they're rare in the city, and they very much resemble pigeons, but i was proud of myself for noticing the differences and correctly identifying it
2026-08-27 22:24:48
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BIRTHDAY BOY J3RK :
its not words. its scales. gotta know the extremes of definitions. and we play between them. or die at the very end of either side 💯
2026-08-28 01:45:05
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🇬🇧Vlad's English Zone👅 :
There’s equivalent for “excited” in Russian. There are a few words that can be used in various contexts, but there’s no one single word that won’t sound awkward. And when people learn the concept of being “excited”, they all of a sudden notice, that they have this emotion that they can’t put into one word in their L1. They can describe it, sure, but using 2+ words. And I find many people saying the English “excited” when they’re speaking they’re speaking their L1.
2026-08-27 16:01:22
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mdeaners :
It’s beyond that. Not having a name for a color makes it harder for a person to distinguish it from another color.
2026-08-27 18:12:55
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