Andrew (host)
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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All of these things combined, supposedly, according to linguistic determinism.
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will transform your mind literally the structure of your mind and therefore change the lens through which you experience the world this is the essential theory my personal opinion
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is that, and like I say, not entirely personal, some of which based on the literature of scholars that I've read, but I would say wholly, not wholly, sorry, mostly in my personal opinion, linguistic determinism
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does not stack up entirely to the human experience.
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I wouldn't say that the language you speak changes your brain to such a degree that you are, you know,
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viewing an alien world comparative to another fellow human being speaking a different language and I think perhaps the simplest argument I have for that is looking at childhood development and if you have ever spent some time with a young child who is
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pre-verbal but perhaps on the cusp of communication you may have experienced their utter frustration when attempting to communicate something with you but not having the words to do so i have a very um
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very particular poignant memory that changed the paradigm for me on this subject.
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of a young boy I used to look after holding a few toys in their hand and babbling away trying to say something very particular to me and I'm giving out all these examples of what I'm interpreting that they might be trying to say and
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and them eventually giving a big sigh and a stomp of the foot and a real frustration because they are so aware that I am not understanding them and that they are unable to convey what it is that they want to communicate and this to me fundamentally illustrates that
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language is created to serve our want to communicate first so there are ideas of communication in our mind I believe that we have inherent to us and language there is
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or perhaps was, but definitely is in a modern sense, in a cultural, societal sense, then used to convey these inner thoughts, to give symbol to the abstract idea that we already have.
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And so to suggest that it is the other way that somehow the language refines the symbols would ignore this kind of pre-verbal want for communication that we all exhibit at that certain stage in our lives.
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And that, I suppose, is quite a large segue that delves a little bit back into the idea of the interpretation of text and language, but does to a certain degree skirt up against the cultural context with which we will read a text.
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And to expand on that a little bit more, I suppose I would say, when I say cultural context, what I mean is, of course, the societies we grow up in, the countries we live in and their culture, how they differ between us and how ultimately, in I suppose ways that
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are obvious, they carve a particular way of thinking in our mind, or at least a particular way of understanding the world.
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And I say that this is quite obvious
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But to try and explain explicitly or perhaps give a particular example would be difficult because the ways in which our culture and society form us are indeed nuanced.
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and they sort of run into each other in particular ways that might take some time to pass and to really explain in detail if I were to attempt to give a small and simple example as simple as I possibly could form it might be something like
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For example, the governance of a culture, of a country perhaps, may influence the culture of the society
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