by creating meaning, understanding, and reality The language we use shape our perception of the world and the world we see. e.g. euphemism > Language can serve as a medium through which we create new understandings and new realities as we begin to talk about them. In fact, we don’t talk about what we see; we see only what we can talk about. south:: [[Use language with care]] [[The media holds great power]] examples: - [[It’s the climate crisis instead of climate change]] - [[People don't realize they are in wars]] [[大语言模型对世界理解的天花板是人类语言的描述极限]] [[Terminologies alienate people]] --- ## Linguistic relativity [[Seeing Like a Language Model]] Various colloquialisms refer to linguistic relativism: the **Whorf hypothesis**; the **Sapir–Whorf hypothesis**; the **Whorf–Sapir hypothesis**; and **Whorfianism**. ![[Screenshot 20251119 at [email protected]]]