Caledonian2 comments on The Design Space of Minds-In-General - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 June 2008 06:37AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 25 June 2008 05:01:13PM 0 points [-]

I would point out, Mr. Goetz, that some languages do not have a "the".

It is not clear how this changes the content of things people say or write in those languages. Whorf-Sapir, while disproven in the technical sense, is surprisingly difficult to abolish.