David B. Himself on Nostr: Brown is not dark red. Brown is a mix of all three primary colors. Burgundy is dark ...

Brown is not dark red. Brown is a mix of all three primary colors.
Burgundy is dark red.

Yes, language affects how we perceive certain concepts, but only very slightly.

Russian speakers see the same tones of colors as English speakers do.

Multilingual people's perception of the world doesn't change when they code switch or change the language of their thinking.

The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis has been mostly disproven. (And is very monolingual Anglophone centric)

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