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There’s a great radiolab episode about this. They found the older generations of signers didn’t just sign more primitively, but they couldn’t comprehend more complex ideas bc they weren’t build into the language yet.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91725...

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That is one of the best Radiolab episodes ever. It's immensely interesting, highly recommended!

Evidence for Sapir-Worf hypothesis? Seems like it’s growing more and more.

It is worth at least reading through the Wikipedia entries on Linguistic Relativity and Linguistic Determinism if this topic interests you. There is a longstanding debate among linguists on this topic, but there are certain areas of the debate which are generally considered to have been settled by empirical evidence.

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

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