Suppose there was a language that had only two words for precipitation, and that one of those words was for rain and the other for snow. If it was found that people who spoke only that language had difficulty discriminating among mist, drizzle, rain, freezing rain, hail, ice pellets, snow, and other forms of precipitation, then that finding would support the:

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The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that the language one speaks influences how one thinks and perceives the world. If people have difficulty distinguishing between different forms of precipitation due to limited vocabulary, it supports this hypothesis.

Suppose There Was a Language That Had Only Two Words