The linguist relativity hypothesis suggests that:
a. the way we think about categories affects the language we use.
b. there are many different ways to describe the same category.
c. words are organized mentally based on their relationship to each other.
d. the language that we use affects how we think about the world.
Answer: D
Rationale: To support the Whorfian hypothesis, evidence would have to show that people from different cultures not only speak differently about the same categories, but think, remember, and behave differently about them.
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