yes, language informs culture, and culture affects language. THAT BEING SAID: the cultural usage of a language has no bearing on the inherent fitness of a language for a particular field! You can discuss plants just as well in English as you can in Greek and Cantonese and Amharic. The chicken-and-egg metaphor breaks down when you remember that more than one type of animal lays eggs, and one of those is the ancestor of the chicken.