LING 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter Readings 6 & 7: Franz Boas, Spectrogram, Benjamin Lee Whorf
31 Jan 2018
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Benjamin lee whorf & laura martin (critical thinking about their writings) Benjamin lee whorf is responsible for access of mayan language. It is false that eskimos have 100 di erent words for snow . Franz boas says eskimo language is similar to how english uses separate roots for a variety of forms (ex. Whorf says the word snow is too inclusive for eskimos because snow is operationally di erent (ex. But this claim is inaccurate because english has words to refer to the di erent types of snow too (sleet, blizzard, slush, etc) There is no accurate number of eskimo words for snow. Even if there was, pullum says it is not intellectually interesting. It is common for languages to have multiple roots for a single word. The eskimo snow hoax proves to falling standards in academia and increasing ignorance for scienti c thought.
