User talk:Timmie.merc

Nineteen Eighty-Four
I have been thinking about this issue and have changed my mind to some extent. If you have a good source saying that the ideas in the Newspeak appendix are similar to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, there shouldn't be a problem mentioning that. I just wouldn't use Encyclopedia.com as a source, however, because it doesn't seem at all reliable. Gigi-Ko! (talk) 06:39, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I think the first link would serve as a good citation, http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/language/whorf.html It's published by the Minnesota State University and it's also the second hit on Google for the term "sapir-whorf hypothesis" (with or without quotes), right behind the Wikipedia page on linguistic relativity.  (I will grant you that encyclopedia.com may be a bit less reputable than you would expect, at the very least it's lost all credibility in my eyes).  Anyway if you have no objection I'll edit the 1984 page and include the citation. Timmie.merc (talk) 07:48, 21 January 2010 (UTC)