Pinker presents in The Stuff of Thought (2007: 126–128) as “five banal versions of the Whorfian hypothesis”: “Language affects thought because we get much of our knowledge through reading and conversation.” “A sentence can frame an event, affecting the way people construe it.” “The stock of words in a language reflects the kinds of things its speakers deal with in their lives and hence think about.” “[I]f one uses the word language in a loose way to refer to meanings,… then language is thought.” “When people think about an entity, among the many attributes they can think about is its name.” These are just truisms, unrelated to any serious issue about linguistic relativism. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/linguistics/#Who