Our Sensitivity to and Memory for Odours Could Be Used

question 15

Multiple Choice

Our sensitivity to and memory for odours could be used as an argument against Benjamin Whorf's hypothesis about thought and language because

• A)most languages have many more odour words than English.
• B)we are so bad at recognizing and remembering odours.
• C)odours are described very differently in different languages.
• D)we can distinguish many more odours than we can name.

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