Whorfianism came to refer to a larger idea derived from this notion — the idea that our language forces us to see the world a certain way, and that different languages impose different world views on their speakers.
It was here that after centuries of being oppressed in their own country, discriminated against, obliged to speak a foreign language, forced to work down coalmines and live in poverty, thousands of Welsh came in the 19th century.
It's almost a cliché by now to cite the superficial similarities between Lincoln and Mr. Obama — two tall, thin men from Illinois with a gift for language forced by circumstance to be wartime presidents.
Ever since, whenever I drive by a castle, I realise that there was a time when England was a prison camp, a very violent prison camp, with a language forced on it and everything suppressed.
If we are forced to think of the world in terms of objects because of our cognitive makeup then it would be no surprise that our natural language forces us to describe the world in terms of objects.
As he would say in a letter to Cynthia Harris: 'Not religion but language forces man to distinguish between this world and the real world, the world as we know it and the genuine, or better known world.
Sure your high school language abilities can come in handy on holiday, but actually living in a country that speaks a different language forces you to really commit to learning a new tongue.
Slavic languages force speakers, when talking about the past, to say whether an action was completed or not.
Evidential languages force speakers to think hard about how they learned what they say they know.Linguists ask precisely how language works in the brain, and examples such as Tuyuca's evidentiality are their raw material.
That means the House Armed Services tactical air and land forces subcommittee language would force the Obama administration to once again fund the F136.
