A good article filled with concrete examples. Anyone interested in how language conditions thought should read it. (It's good enough to amortize the annoyance of the pdf, linked elsewhere in this thread.) It has long seemed like merely a matter of time before piles of evidence for Sapir-Whorf come to light. Language is too big a part of who we are for things to be otherwise.
To take an example close to home, for me the most important factor in software design is to develop language for talking about the problem, translate that language into code, then evolve it as one learns more about the problem. It's surprising how small changes in one's problem language (like renaming something) can trigger a cascade of valuable ideas.
To take an example close to home, for me the most important factor in software design is to develop language for talking about the problem, translate that language into code, then evolve it as one learns more about the problem. It's surprising how small changes in one's problem language (like renaming something) can trigger a cascade of valuable ideas.