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Language Absolutely, Positively Changes How You Think

Despite the groans, mocking and abject boredom of their peers, the Undead Theory Working Group at the University of Tedox have uncovered evidence that really does prove that language shapes how you think in a way that isn’t hand-wavy at all. No siree.

In an experiment that seemed to make sense on their funding proposal, they monitored the brain activity of volunteers before and after being exposed to the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. Tests showed that all subjects experienced activation of the frontal cortex shortly after exposure. Those with college degrees in language-related fields then experienced confusion, nausea and a bizarre calm. Those without college degrees in such fields simply laughed.

Due to linguistic relativity, no-one actually knows what the results mean.

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