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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Breakdown
What would it be like for you to go to China or Russia, not knowing a word of their language? You would of-course be rather uncomfortable and quite lost in a language all so strange to your familiar. This is part of what the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis states except ....
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.... not quite perfect. When my Dad came to America he had trouble adjusting to the English way of speaking. He knew what the basic words were and how to carry on a normal conversation but he didn’t have an understanding of a lot of the words in the English language. He may have heard the word and used it here and there but he never quite knew what it meant, so he had to do whatever possible in order for him to survive and relate to the culture of Americans. In order for him to make it in an American society he related to a dictionary and read all the way t ....
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