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 Re: E. grammar rules, worldwide?
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Originally Posted by bianca  ... I will stop this thread here, and start another one on the more abstract definition of grammar versus language. | Sounds like a good idea.  Quote: |
Originally Posted by bianca And, as to "widely rejected", widely according to whom? Do you have any statistics about how wide? It is a linguistic theory, ... | Well, it's not ... a theory. Sapir–Whorf hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Today researchers disagree — often intensely — about how strongly language influences thought.
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