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