The linguist relativity hypothesis suggests that:
A) the way we think about categories affects the language we use.
B) there are many different ways to describe the same category.
C) words are organized mentally based on their relationship to each other.
D) the language that we use affects how we think about the world.

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The linguistic relativity hypothesis, also known as Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, proposes that the language we use affects how we think about and perceive the world, implying that different languages and cultures may have different conceptualizations of the same phenomena.

The Linguist Relativity Hypothesis Suggests That