Thought I was dreaming yesterday morning when some religious geezer was giving us his 'thought for the day' on the Today programme (they won't let you talk unless you're a religious geezer, which is quite a phenomenon in itself, imho). Anyway, he was giving us a hardline version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. He went as far as to say something like that if you say 'he walked through the mud' to a Spanish person he'd think about where the walker was going while if you said it to an English speaker they'd think about what it felt like to be walking through mud. This being because 'English is a dynamic language'. Maybe I WAS dreaming...

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