Re: Chinese dimensionality

Quoting tomhchappell <tomhchappell@...>:

> Hello, Andreas, and other contributors to this thread; thanks for
> writing.
This rather surprises me, since the only previous activity in this thread is my
original post and Jörg's brief reply.

> I don't think the view that time is at least two-dimensional, really
> has to do with either Sinitic grammar, or with recreational or
> psychedelic drug-use.
>
> In my opinion, any person who has a spouse or a child of sufficient
> age, will come to the view that time must have more than one
> dimension; this is the only reasonable explanation for the fact that
> two people can meet, repeatedly, in a single location, and have had
> alternate histories during the meantime.
>
> 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.

                                                         Andreas

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