Researchers at the University of Ghent have produced lists of words more likely to be known either by women or men.
Mach and mascarpone: testing how vocabulary is gendered | Books | theguardian.com.
Researchers at the University of Ghent have produced lists of words more likely to be known either by women or men.
Mach and mascarpone: testing how vocabulary is gendered | Books | theguardian.com.
Perhaps the most famous invocation of Sapir-Whorf is the claim that because Eskimos have dozens of words for snow, they have a mental apparatus that equips them differently—and, one assumes, better—than, say, Arabs, to perceive snow.
from ‘A dozen words for “misunderstood”‘, a review of The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language