stackyFACTSThe Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggests that the language you speak rigidly dictates the concepts you can conceptualize. If your native tongue lacks a future tense, your conceptual grasp of tomorrow is fundamentally different. You are functionally trapped inside the limitations of your own vocabulary.
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