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Boas ' student Edward Sapir reached back to the Humboldtian idea that languages contained the key to understanding the differing world views of peoples.

In his writings he espoused the viewpoint that because of the staggering differences in the grammatical systems of languages no two languages were ever similar enough to allow for perfect translation between them.

Sapir also thought because language represented reality differently, it followed that the speakers of different languages would perceive reality differently.

According to Edward Sapir: