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Proposal to overhaul disease’s name could boost awareness and funding
There’s an idea in linguistics known as the Whorfian hypothesis. It proposes that language is inexorably linked with how we perceive and think about the world. The classic argument is this: an Inuit person, possessing different names for snow, has the ability to think about, and even see, subtle differences in snow that speakers of some other languages do not.
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