Re: OT: Gender Bending Moro

From:    Joseph Bridwell
> Q: Am I the only one who perceives professional linguists as prone to
> grab onto an idea and run it to its extreme? (e.g. Sapir-Wohrf
> hypothesis)?
I'd say this happens in every study or endeavor.  And just to
clarify, since your parenthetical comment is ambiguous, I don't
there's ever been a majority of linguists who really bought into
the Sapir-Whorff hypothesis, and it's certainly true now that
very few support it.

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