Casting broadly here (apologies if it seems off-topic); but when I was but a
wee lad, first learning the trade, I heard some rather critical comments
directed at the "Whorf-Sapir" theory that the language we speak somehow
shapes the way we think. Since then I've found the same idea addressed by
both Francis Bacon (Idols of the Marketplace) and Bertrand Russell.
What made Whorf and Russell interesting were their suggestions that the
underlying subject-predicate grammatic structure in Indo-European languages
allowed science in a way not possible with some other language families.
Moreover, this seems to be really emphasized in computing (vague echoes in
Turing) and things like the triplet structure of properties and entities in
the CIDOC-CRM.
So: I was wondering: has Whorf-Sapir been forgiven by academia (possibly
North American anthropology-based archaeology more than elsewhere)?