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Re: Two-dimensional time and the friends of Whorfians (was:Re:Chinese dimensionality

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, July 8, 2005, 20:59
Quoting tomhchappell <tomhchappell@...>:

> > > Is your Whorfian friend, or are his or her Chinese friends, family > > > people, by any chance? That may be the real explanation. > > > No idea, tho it does seem likely that > > he's got neither family nor friends. > > /Surely/ he has at least one acquaintance (if not friend) who is a > native L1-speaker of some Chinese dialect, or he would not have made > that very "creative" generalizing conjecture about > the "dimensionality" of Chinese mentation -- would he?
It wouldn't surprise me if he would.
> By the way --- is your conjecture that he likely has no family nor > friends, a deduction based on his Whorfianness? Or is it based > instead on information you have not published on-list here?
It's based on his kooky behaviour. Strikes me as the kind of person who spends to much time alone reading and philosophizing. Despite being (claiming to be) a professional translator, he is no good at all at communicating his thoughts. Andreas

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