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Re: Introducing myself, and several questions

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Thursday, February 17, 2005, 4:43
Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> Hi! > > Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> writes: >> ... >> Pirahã is the name. I could believe the story if it was set in a >> ... >> it is in the wrong location for that, and I am pretty sure that >> it is a hoax. > > Well, yes, the stories I read are so unbelievable that it is hard to > believe it's real. However, there are many different sources. If a > hoax, it must be a huge-scale one. If not, it's truely strange. How > to check?
Ethnologue references Daniel L. Everett as writing much on Múra-Pirahã: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MYP His page: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/DE/DEHome.html An overview, in PDF form, "Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Piraha": http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/DE/culturalgrammar.pdf I doubt it's a _hoax_. It's possible that he might be wrong about some things, but I'm more inclined to believe in it. *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/

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