ass-backwards into the future

That's great, John.  In addition to the fact that I really love this concept
in general, it gives me a whole new understanding of  McFly in _Back to the
Future_.   :)

Sally

Stephen Hawking asks in his famous book: "why do we remember the past and
not the future?"  Well, duh.  We're going ass-backwards!  ;)

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Kassi Script


> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > This is exactly the "Trollish perception of time" I spoke of - the
Trolls of
> > Pratchett's Discworld sees time this way.
>
> Supposedly Quechua is like this too:  ass-backwards into the future.
>
> --
> John Cowan   jcowan@reutershealth.com  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is
> dramatically overdescribed.  Still other languages are simultaneously
> overdescribed and underdescribed.  Welsh pertains to the third category.
>         --Alan King
>