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Benjamin Lee Whorf on Communication

1897–1941 United States

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Speech is the best show a man puts on.

Language, thought and reality (1956)

The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.

Whorf (1937)

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