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Stop Calling it a Wallet — Gaby Goldberg

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Alien languages, linguistic relativity, vertical wallets, and what they all have in common.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet” — Juliet, about Romeo (Shakespeare) According to the hypothesis of linguistic relativity , the way people think of the world is influenced directly by the language people use to talk about it. Language shapes our thoughts ; it changes the way we think. Arrival My favorite example of linguistic relativity is in the movie Arrival , where (spoiler alert!) linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with working with the military to communicate with aliens that have landed on Earth. Through regular “meetings” wi

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