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So, I wonder if anything could be concluded from the experiments about which comes first, the chicken or the egg, I mean, grammatical gender which might influence our preception of our world or genderization of our world which would cause us to grammaticalize language according to how we view the genders we perceive?
Whorf claimed that language influenced thought (and reality, or at least our perception of it).
We've heard a lot in recent years about grammatical gender in biblical languages and Bible translation. I wonder if anything from the gender experiments bears on any of those Bible translation gender debates.
Sorry, always wondering. But I'm content with clearly revealed truth.