Whorf attacks the universalism based on European ethnocentrism, seeds linguistic features particular to "primitive languages," and tries to construct universals on such new basis.
沃尔夫批判以欧洲中心主义为基础的普遍主义,寻求语言思维之特性,进而在新的基础上,建立人类共同的语言和思维。
Many evolutionary linguists believe that all human languages have descended from a single, primitive language, which itself evolved from the grunts and noises of the lower animals.
许多进化论语言学家相信所有的人类语言都来源于单一的、原初的语言。而这种原初的语言则从其他动物的呼噜和噪声中演化出来。
They are accustomed to thinking of all semantics in terms of the primitive axioms that make up the static data typing of mainstream languages and database systems.
他们习惯于按照组成主流源和数据库系统静态数据类型化的最初设想来思考所有的语义。
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