Piraha, was Re: Introducing myself, and several questions
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 17, 2005, 23:08 |
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In a message dated 2/17/2005 12:10:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
joerg_rhiemeier@WEB.DE writes:
>There is a tradition of such hoaxes, which usually concern some kind
>of "discovery" that challenges a well-established assumption of the
>discipline in question (this time, the linguistic uniformitarian
>principle). I have seen several such hoaxes; the Pirahã matter
>looks like another one of those.
When yu say it's a hoax, are you suggesting that the linguist Dan Everett is
hoaxing us, or that the Piraha are hoaxing him?
Doug
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