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Originally Posted by Boonmee
Analysis, subconscious or otherwise, of personal experience is not as "thorough" as it is in the Western (bad term, but I mean to refer to native speakers of Indo-European languages) mind, due to a lack of linguistic "infrastructure" to cope with such analysis. If certain concepts do not exist linguistically, then they probably do not exist culturally.
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So if I don't know the word for "yellow," I can't see the color yellow? This is where linguistic determinism gets sticky. I believe that thought is pre-verbal and that thought is NOT shaped by vocabulary.
But I do get flustered by the "aroi" designation to judge all food. Does it mean "this food has enough chilis to satisfy my Thai palette?"