Re: COMLANG?
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 26, 2008, 19:34 |
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 2:18 PM, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Isn't there a book/article "Women, Fire and other Dangerous Things" --
> dealing IIRC with classifications in Australian languages?
By George Lakoff:
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Dangerous-Things-George-Lakoff/dp/0226468046
Except for the title, I don't remember its being especially funny;
but I enjoyed it, however many years ago it was that I read it.
I seem to recall the title refers to a classification system in
Dyirbal, but it might be another Australian language. The book
as a whole is about linguistic categorization in general.
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry