... and that this toolevolved "beyond the individual-to-individual sphere into the self sphere [more]." As language developed and became a central part of life, the social process of language wasinternalized and became consciousness and, therefore, thought. So if language preceded conscious thought in the evolution of humans, does that necessarily mean the two are still so tightly intertwined that thought would be impossible without language? One theory about the relationship between thought and language, part of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, is called Linguistic Determinism. Linguistic Determinism is generally the idea that the language we use, at least to some extent, creates our methods of seeing and understanding the world and how we think. The concepts we can understand and think about, the ideas we can have and convey, are directly related to what our language is capable of describing. There are two more specific forms of Linguistic Determinism, called "strong" and "weak". Strong ...

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