jno I am very very impressed with the whole of your contribution. I am shocked and complimented that you read and understand - - the financial times
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is controversial on many levels, starting with its name. Linguists Benjamin Lee Whorf and Edward Sapir were close collaborators in the first decades of the 20th century, but they never actually published a hypothesis together about language and cognition.
The sixties thesis was that there are various things you can say in one language and and not in another. Sapin used Eskimo ( Inuktituk I suppose) and his analysis that the language defied grammar and they ( the eskimo ) seemed to speak in sentences
It was later claimed he used tightly filtered sentences to illustrate his points. I cannot find my email to her to which she didnt reply but it was on the practice of selective presentation of data.
this guy is for it
https://www.laserfiche.com/ecmblog/linguistic-theory-can-business-edge-really/
but even he whacks in: Regardless of the degree to which the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is actually legitimate,
thank you for your interest - I will have to go for a cup of tea