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Re: The difficulties of judging a language which you don't speak natively (was Re: The difficulties of being weirder than English)

From:Marshall and Endemann <vaiaata@...>
Date:Saturday, May 29, 2004, 2:24
Yes, it really is nonsense isn't it! But linguists have been claiming
superior status for one language or another an such pseudo-scientific
grounds since Babel!

Cheers,

Chris

on 29/5/04 12:56 PM, Javier BF at uaxuctum@YAHOO.ES wrote:

>> The first item: somebody here posted an interesting link a few weeks >> ago to Talmy's typology of verbs of motion >> (http://elies.rediris.es/elies11/cap2.htm, if anyone's interested). > > I had already heard about this typology of verbs of motion, but had > a look into that link anyway... only to get nonplussed at this piece > of utter nonsense: > > http://elies.rediris.es/elies11/cap226.htm >