alleryWhorf blamed unsafe smoking near gasoline barrels on which word?
AFull
BStorage
CFlammable
DEmpty
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Empty
1. Workers avoided smoking near full barrels but smoked near barrels labelled with one particular word.
2. Whorf concluded that the word empty made them regard the barrels as harmless.
3. The other words did not lower the workers' guard.
_Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic relativity, Several terms for a single concept_
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