How important is language to a culture?

>>2730476
Language would dictate how a view of things would be dictated.

A language that placed importance on names/objects/identity would try to construct a view where those names/identities are fixed existence.

A language that placed emphasis on connections between objects/names/identity would try to construct a view of the world where interconnectedness is the default mode of assumption.

Language would not only change culture, but change the very way in which our minds construct reality and shape out very thoughts.

>>2730476
Geography and culture dictates the way the language developed, the whole 30 words for snow thing.

But i think in this era most places would be fine if they swapped since we all live similar life styles, you'd only get weird shit if you swapped English and some tiny amazonian tribes language, where now we call computers magical thinking boxes.

Although in Chinese a computer is literally "electric brain"

Language also helps communicate/convey culture.

>>2730600
A computer literally mean a person who computed back before the invention of the computers. It meant a person who would calculate. When computers were being invented, words like electronic computers were thrown around. The meaning behind compute is something like "coming together to think".

So an electronic computer would be "one who comes together to think electronically"

Electric brain would fit pretty well with that definition. As there wouldn't be anything different to our original definition.

The meaning of the word computer changed over time as well as the word electronics.

>>2730476
66.2%

>>2730639
Another example is cybernetics, which was the "art of steering/governing/piloting" and referred to civil administration.
Colloquially cybernetics now means "cyborgs and shit" but that's not even close to the academic view:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics#Definitions

Now I'm imagining the blackanese kingdoms of west africa
"BOKUTACHI WUZ KANGZ TO KUSO"

>>2730591
this kind of. I don't really have proof, but this is my hypothesis on the effect of language. That's why we(americans) need to construct a new PERFECT language.

>>2734127
The sapir-whorf hypothesis is rejected by most linguists if I recall correctly.

>>2734133
um no. There is plenty of experimental evidence supporting a soft version of it.