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A famous lecturer argues that because the hopi indians have only two nouns for things that fly, one for birds and another for nonbirds, the hopi must interpret all flying things in terms of these two nouns. this argument is based on ________.

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This argument is based on The linguistic relativity hypothesis
According to The linguistic relativity hypothesis, the language that people use in our day to day life will heavily influence the view/cognition of the speaker.
For example, if a person tend to use high-energy language, that person will be more likely to feel optimistic in facing the problem in front of him/her
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