Ben Percifield
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Hey I'm Ben, brand strategist by day web3 experimentoooor by night. Not really a hat guy but metaphorically wears many hats
Ben Percifield
@benpercifield
Pirahã only has two color words: light and dark . What an English speaker might call dark red, speakers of Pirahã would just call dark
For example, if there were canisters labeled “gasoline drums,” no worker would ever smoke near them because they were explicitly dangerous.
However, when the canisters were labeled “ empty gasoline drums,” workers would be less vigilant and would smoke near them.
The word empty , in their minds, meant “ free of risk .” This perplexed Whorf as
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