Re: FLAMEBAIT: Re: Non-linear / full-2d writing systems?

Ray Brown wrote:

> On Saturday, May 14, 2005, at 03:22 , Paul Bennett wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> Sapir-Worf could not possibly be true. If it were, we'd still be banging
>> rocks together, if that.
>
>
>         ROTFL
>
> Yep - and because we say 'sun rise' and 'sun set' we anglophones all
> think
> the sun goes around the earth; and francophones, hispanophones & speakers
> of other Romance languages are animists who see sex in in everything!

Interestingly, my brain thinks of the sun as going around the earth,
even though I instinctively know that to be false.  Simply because,
well, that's what it looks like.