Seems like that would be a counterexample to Sapir-Whorf, not evidence. You clearly had an idea but not a word; language did not bound your ideation.<p>(I don't accept it, at least not in its strong form, pretty much for this reason; one way of looking at my programming job is nailing down concepts before they have names, then giving them names only later. There's some useful idea there, but Sapir-Whorf overstates it.)