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Examples

  • If you want to go all sapir-whorf on things, then I'd really rather listen to rap, cause rap has an attitude.

    What do we mean by ‘computer game’? 2007

  • She would pour a bowl and whorf it down before Ella and George had a chance to wake up, then she would split for school.

    LIAR FRANCINE PASCAL 2000

  • She would pour a bowl and whorf it down before Ella and George had a chance to wake up, then she would split for school.

    LIAR FRANCINE PASCAL 2000

  • April 17, 2008 at 11:42 am though we don’t look kindly on the sapir-whorf hypothesis, i enjoyed this quotation. yes, i still insist on saying quotation rather than quote as a noun.

    Oh, that my being stupid could eventually work for my benefit! But, alas. - 22 Words 2008

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