sexist language

[Henry Spencer]

In article <7731 at dasys1.UUCP> jpr at dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>...Brian Kernighan... quoted the linguist Benjamin Whorf. I can't remember
>it exactly, but it was to the effect that "the kind of the language we
>speak affects how we think"...

It should be noted that although this idea -- the "Whorfian Hypothesis" --
tends to be taken as gospel in computer science, the linguistics folks
value Whorf's work on American-Indian languages but consider the Hypothesis
to be unproven and somewhat dubious.
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