{"id":3165,"date":"2010-10-09T21:16:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T02:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donwaisanen.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-10-09T21:16:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T02:16:50","slug":"the-sapir-whorf-hypothesis-a-la-fry-and-laurie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/10\/09\/the-sapir-whorf-hypothesis-a-la-fry-and-laurie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, a la Fry and Laurie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the classic Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been getting some recent media attention (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/29\/magazine\/29language-t.html?_r=1&#038;th&#038;%23038;emc=th\">NY Times<\/a>), I thought it proper (in that British sense) to post a little Fry and Laurie tribute to the topic, which at once demonstrates the old chestnut, while taking us through the many flights of fancy to which our rhetorical contortions may lead. If anything, have fun watching Hugh Laurie in his pre-House career: <object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hnHv7NGWb0k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the classic Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been getting some recent media attention (NY Times), I thought it proper (in that British sense) to post a little Fry and Laurie tribute to the topic, which at once demonstrates the old chestnut, while taking us through the many flights of fancy to which our rhetorical contortions may [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}