From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-12T18:33:08+09:00
Subject: Re: OSCON report

Hi,

In message "Re: OSCON report"
    on 03/07/12, "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

|I'm not sure of the exact formulation of the
|hypothesis. My favorite quote of Whorf's is:
|"Language shapes the way we think, and determines
|what we can think about."

Hmm, I had misunderstood the hypothesis.  After reading pages which
have been mentioned in the list, now I agree with this hypothesis.

I admit I didn't know Sapir-Whorf hypothesis before the talk.  I was
ignorant (as usual).  I re-invented the wheel (as usual) from the
vague memory of Babel-17.

							matz.