{"id":8830,"date":"2018-12-28T13:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T12:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8830"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T12:03:37","slug":"the-language-of-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8830\/","title":{"rendered":"The language of ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be one of the most ignorant tweets I&#8217;ve seen:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Linguists will recognise that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKIP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UKIP<\/a> subscribe (presumably unknowingly) to a radical version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It\u2019s not convincing. Though it\u2019s trivially true that language &amp; culture are linked, it\u2019s not true that language determines the way speakers see the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oliver Kamm (@OliverKamm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliverKamm\/status\/1078611886130823168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Culture and language are linked only trivially, eh? Where to even begin?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny how little the metropolitcan elites actually know about the world around them,\u00a0despite their supposed global outlook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be one of the most ignorant tweets I&#8217;ve seen: Linguists will recognise that @UKIP subscribe (presumably unknowingly) to a radical version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It\u2019s not convincing. Though it\u2019s trivially true that language &amp; culture are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8830\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8832,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions\/8832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}