sapir-whorf

Sapir-Whorf is largely discredited in modern linguistics (especially so for the strong form that your comment seems to suggest).

Or maybe Sapir-Whorf: the language not only determines its own meaning, but your entire cognitive process.

There are some difficulties in education in China, but the communist period had far more to do with that than Sapir-Whorf.

That statement by Wittgenstein is far from being the same thing as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is the theory that an individual's thoughts and actions are determined by the language or languages that individual speaks.

It's like a weak form of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, where language shapes your thinking.

I was immediately put off when the author trotted out Sapir-Whorf; and, not even apologetically: in its strong form!

For me, I learned some constructed languages because I wondered if they would provoke the Sapir-Whorf effect.

I think Wittgenstein's idea maybe more broadly applicable, meaning it isn't limited to natural languages like the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

In short, the present research yielded no support for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

So, a sort of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis for the programming domain.

Vague parallel to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, check.

"Whorfer" = adherent of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which (very roughly) says that language structure and vocabulary influences or determines what thoughts can be thought.

In any case, it's jumping to probably mistaken conclusion to interpret "limits" of language and "limits" of the world that Wittgenstein was talking about as being about same thing as Sapir-Whorf hypothesis concerns.

"As a linguistics major, you're no stranger to the idea that a person is only capable of having thoughts and ideas that can be expressed in their language" Also no stranger to the idea that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is not at all supported by things like 'evidence'.

Sapir-Whorf (heh, Worf) notwithstanding, we know that the "choice" of native language does not affect the child's cognitive capabilities negatively in any way (basically, as all languages are generative, you can express everything in any language -- if you lack the words, you make them up).