After all, it is difficult to even think about a revolution, much less plot one with co-conspirators, if you do not even have a word for revolution. Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land Martian. In the real world, the Sapir—Whorf hypothesis has fallen out of favor. Jon Brase puts it this way:. The problem with Sapir—Worf is that it is simultaneously mindnumbingly obvious a great part of what goes on inside our heads is verbal, and thus our language will affect every process of thought that relies on it for a source of symbols , and utter bilge A useful human language probably has to be Turing complete , and not everything that goes on inside our heads is verbal.