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And calling anyone who cares about grammar a stickler as if we were in high school

Pedantry over rules that do not actually reflect the way native speakers speak is bad.

Studying grammar is studying the building blocks of what defines the way think about reality —- language. The article calls stickler anyone who’s interested in the intricacies of grammar. Multiple times.

> language defines the way we think about reality

citation needed :)

Here it is. https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shape...

:)

It's cute how you resolve (!) a debate that encompasses linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, neurology, and maybe a couple other sciences with a single link to some TED talk.

That's basically the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and it's been largely rejected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

https://www.amazon.com/Through-Language-Glass-Different-Lang...

The strong form has been rejected. Not weaker forms.

that's pretty much everything these days

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