Re: Answering some points
From: | Muke Tever <alrivera@...> |
Date: | Friday, April 27, 2001, 3:23 |
"David Peterson" <DigitalScream@...> wrote:
> There are languages in which the future is behind, the past is in front,
> and humans don't move along a path towards a future, but rather the past
> pushes away in front of them.
Such as English, if you take 'before' (earlier/in front of, cf. 'fore') and
'after' (later/behind, cf. 'aft').
So the language doesn't _necessarily_ determine/reflect the worldview (or at
least the current worldview). Anyway...
*Muke!
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