Sapir is not actually Whorfian (in this early, 1933, essay on language.). He points out that both culture and language change, but at different rates of speed. So if a language and a culture are in synch, this will change as culture changes faster than language does. I will have to figure out at what point he becomes associated with the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis."
His reflections on the relation between culture and language are very sensible and not at all deterministic. It is not the structure of language that is cultural, but the actual content.
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