Your language constructs your reality. Imagine we had only one word for the colours ‘blue’ and ‘green;’ i.e. we didn’t distinguish between these two concepts linguistically. We could call this colour grue, which means either blue or green. This would mean that whether we saw a green plant or a blue plant we would utter the same sentence: “There is a grue plant.” If we were to adopt this change in language, it would in effect entail a change in our perception of reality. We would no longer be able to label blue and green things as being distinct in colour. There would only be six colours in a rainbow. Our reality would be different.
