How would he describe the world? Why do we think he describe it that way?
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Here are some adjectives for modern world: supposedly brilliant, grim and mighty, kinder and gentler, high-tech, self-seeking, semi-tropical, prosaic, bustling, skeptical, altruistic, neurotic, postwar, capitalist, misguided, complex, whole, promising, cultured, vulgar, prosperous, godless, strenuous, decadent, gentler .
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According to Guy Deutscher, researcher at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester, on an article for the New York Times, a language does not forbid its speakers to think anything, unlike what Whorf initially suggested, but it does shape the way we see the world.
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