#whorf

[heart-worth-breaking]

Dax should have dumped Whorf like radioactive waste after the Risa incident (s5e7 Let he who is without sin...)

[tower-of-hana]

Reblog to trigger Whorf

[noosphe-re]

The thoughts of a Hopi about events always include both space and time, for neither is found alone in his world view. Thus his language gets along adequately without tenses for its verbs, and permits him to think habitually in terms of space-time. Properly to understand Einstein's relativity a Westerner must abandon his spoken tongue and take to the language of calculus. But a Hopi, Whorf implies, has a sort of calculus built into him.

Stuart Chase, foreword to ‘Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf’, by Benjamin Lee Whorf, edited by John B. Carroll

[drlinguo]

An interesting thread about the origin of the term allophone

[chronicles-of-a-student]

“A metaphor is an expression in which one kind of thing is understood and experienced in terms of another entirely unrelated thing; the metaphors in a language can reveal aspects of the culture of its speakers. Take, for example, the concept of an argument. In logic and philosophy, an argument is a discussion involving differing points of view, or a debate. But the conceptual metaphor in American culture can be stated as ARGUMENT IS WAR. This metaphor is reflected in many expressions of the everyday language of American speakers: I won the argument. He shot down every point I made. They attacked every argument we made. Your point is right on target. I had a fight with my boyfriend last night. In other words, we use words appropriate for discussing war when we talk about arguments, which are certainly not real war. But we actually think of arguments as a verbal battle that often involve anger, and even violence, which then structures how we argue.

To illustrate that this concept of argument is not universal, Lakoff suggests imagining a culture where an argument is not something to be won or lost, with no strategies for attacking or defending, but rather as a dance where the dancers’ goal is to perform in an artful, pleasing way. No anger or violence would occur or even be relevant to speakers of this language, because the metaphor for that culture would be ARGUMENT IS DANCE.”

Linda Light in “Perspectives : An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology”.

[blacklinguist]

“whorfian ideas simply do NOT slap” - matloki n pinker

[speedygal]

Whorf prince au

Worf and Riker are arranged marriaged to each other then assigned to the heavenship ‘galaxy class’ United Kingdoms Ship Enterprise D as teenagers. In this au, Klingons age not as fast as they do to adulthood in canon. Worf looks like a actual teenager and Riker looks like a twenty some year old.  They are both disgusted by each other and can’t tolerate each other’s presence. They both want the marriage called off under the assumption that one or the other is too young/too old for each other.

King Picard reassures their parents that he would make sure they grow up into the people that they need to be and Q still pops up as a malevolent wizard figure aboard the Enterprise testing them and being mistake multiple times by royals, guests, and members of staff as Picard’s boyfriend. Picard sends Worf and Riker down on away missions with members  of the senior staff when they are over a random planet. Most of the time Data Soong is sent with them and/or Geordi along with some royal guards. Deanna Troi is the royal counselor of the residents of the heaven ship.

Evetually, over time, with help from the local tavern Guinan the teenagers grow and evolve into the people that their kingdoms need them to be. Science is still considered a sacred, powerful, and very highly regarded subject so sometimes Riker calls Geordi a wizard and Worf calls Crusher a healer because the word ‘doctor’ isn’t commonplace for some reason. Worf is a teenager full of anxiety regarding retaining his houses honor.

In the mean time their anger toward each other only grows until it explodes on them in a fist fight and yell at each other until all the steam is gone and all they are doing is laughing and being buddies. Upon their return to the Enterprise, Worf starts courting Riker by reciting poetry and Riker finds it endearing and romantic then searches for the most romantic literature to gift to Worf. Inadvertently throws some books at him when Worf is reciting a poem. Worf thinks he is doing it right in the grand scheme of things. Picard knows the next few years are going to be rocky and very long just waiting for the actual day that they have to be married to unite their kingdoms.

[aishele]

„Studiuję etnologię dla beki” 100 days challenge – day 42/100 – Benjamin Lee Whorf „Język, myśl i rzeczywistość”