&gt; If you can&#x27;t express something in your language then you are unlikely to even think it.<p>This is a fairly strong statement of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which is not widely believed.<p>You can state the hypothesis in various ways, ranging from the strong hypothesis (&quot;you can&#x27;t think things that aren&#x27;t in your language&quot;, which is clearly false because you can learn new things about language) to weak (&quot;language kinda influences your thoughts&quot;).<p>There is evidence in favor of what I&#x27;d call the &quot;extremely weak Sapir-Whorf hypothesis&quot;: that language can influence the way you judge things that are established by convention such as colors and directions, in experiments that are specifically designed to emphasize these distinctions, sometimes.