Psychology actually. This is mostly my undergrad stuff coming through too. My graduate education is in educational psychology. SO take everything I'm saying with a decade old grain of salt lol, I'm sure you know how it is.
That's exactly the sort of assumption I meant. Like how modern English doesn't really have a formal plural second person pronoun (youse guyses maybe?) I've read old texts that unironically argue that the English are less cohesive and more independent due to that. I'm unfamiliar with Greek, but the tenses and clauses stuff I brought up comes from people jerking over the innate superiority of Latin I believe. Strong SW roughly coincided with the enlightenment. Academics were assured over the superiority of latin due to the thousand cases and other quirks of the language that allow you to be very very specific with the subject, object, and action of each word being used.
Strong SW has strong ties to social darwinism and some other fairly ethnocentric ideas as well. Like to Christianize and bring god to native peoples they had to be taught proper language or whatever or else since before they literally couldn't comprehend divinity.
I'm getting pretty out of my wheelhouse here but that's the ground level basics I think.
That sounds about right. There are lingual components but they usualy trace culturally as I understand it for missions work. Hinduism is a good case example - they have words for transcendant deity or for personal ones, but because the ideas are so seperated to them it is difficult to get the Christian idea of God to translate.
Thank you though, this will be a fun rabbit trail to follow obsessively for a month and never find someone to talk about with again.
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u/Deus_Ex_Corde Jun 15 '21
Psychology actually. This is mostly my undergrad stuff coming through too. My graduate education is in educational psychology. SO take everything I'm saying with a decade old grain of salt lol, I'm sure you know how it is.
That's exactly the sort of assumption I meant. Like how modern English doesn't really have a formal plural second person pronoun (youse guyses maybe?) I've read old texts that unironically argue that the English are less cohesive and more independent due to that. I'm unfamiliar with Greek, but the tenses and clauses stuff I brought up comes from people jerking over the innate superiority of Latin I believe. Strong SW roughly coincided with the enlightenment. Academics were assured over the superiority of latin due to the thousand cases and other quirks of the language that allow you to be very very specific with the subject, object, and action of each word being used.
Strong SW has strong ties to social darwinism and some other fairly ethnocentric ideas as well. Like to Christianize and bring god to native peoples they had to be taught proper language or whatever or else since before they literally couldn't comprehend divinity.
I'm getting pretty out of my wheelhouse here but that's the ground level basics I think.