Interesting Sapir-Whorfish article

[BetterSense]

It's not about japanese though, so I put it here.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0822_050822_chinese.html

[Mike Cash]

What's a whorefish?

[Tspoonami]

Interesting article... It might explain why my Chinese friends often gaze off into the space behind me when I talk to them, as well as why we who study Japanese always ask for context. We are starting to think like East Asians. Unless, of course, the phenomenon occurs only in Chinese people.

Mike Cash wrote:
What's a whorefish?

The kind of fish that makes ugly fish happy.

It is also the kind of fish that shouldn't be hanging around on a family-friendly forum.

[tanuki]

Mike Cash wrote:
What's a whorefish?

That's what I wanted to ask when I first read that, but I didn't have the guts.

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Anyway, I read the Wikipedia article and that article you linked to doesn't look "Sapir-Whorfish" to me, since it doesn't deal with language.

[HeyItsMatt]

Mike Cash wrote:
What's a whorefish?

Guppies maybe? Either that or they got an abstinence-only education in fish school, and that's why they can't stop popping out babies.