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• When Words Fail

  Posted on January 28, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    As part of my studies in college, I had to take a course in linguistics. I remember a professor explaining the Whorfian Hypothesis, which asserted that our concept of the world cannot exceed the limits of our language to describe it.  In other words, only as we have the vocabulary to capture something can […]

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