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RE: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

• To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
• From: "Chris Wilper" <cwilper@c...>
• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:55:24 -0500
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• Thread-topic: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

> Not to spiral too quickly off-topic, but I wanted to point out that
> Sapir-Whorf has been thoroughly discredited, and although it makes for

Not thoroughly.  Whorf was credited, Sapir wasn't.  
Which is okay by me because I don't think Sapir even
appeared in one episode.  Whorf was in at least two
of the movies.

Now, if it weren't for weak linguistic determinism, how
would I have made such a lame Star Trek joke?  Thus,
Sapir-Whorf has not been thoroughly discredited.

:)

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:50 PM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE:  The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint


> > Tools do affect the way we think just as languages, a tool of sort,
> > affects the way we think.  It has less to do with the audience or

Not to spiral too quickly off-topic, but I wanted to point out that
Sapir-Whorf has been thoroughly discredited, and although it makes for
good plotlines in books like "Snow Crash" and lends an air of mysterious
authority to persons like Chomsky; the thesis that language shapes
cognition is highly overrated.

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