I don't experience my own language as a Whorfian. I don't see breakfast as a breaking of a fast, or disease as dis-ease or a lack of easiness or comfort. Languages do not embody world-views. Their metaphors are dead ones.
I don't think people think differently of breakfast as "des-ayuno" or unfasting or "petit dejeuner" (small lunch.) It is still just what you eat in the morning.
I had a Whorfian student, who would just give a lot of examples. "In Russian, blah blah." he was very smart, and had studied a lot of languages, hence the the examples.
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