Jack Vance and Sapir-Whorf
Over at Tenser, said the Tensor an interesting post about Jack Vance’s The Languages of Pao:
Unlike some other stories I’ve written about in which the linguistics is secondary, The Language of Pao is first and foremost about a particular idea from linguistic theory–it’s a novel-length exploration of a particularly strong version of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (hereafter SWH), the idea that our patterns of thought are affected by the features of the language we speak.