Re: Sapir-WhorFreakiness
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 22, 2004, 18:04 |
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In a message dated 8/22/2004 1:56:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mark@POLYMATHIX.COM writes:
>Americans don't require a lot of effort to abstain from eating horse meat
>throughout their entire lifetimes.
But if in actual fact, we ate horesmeat daily except when there was a
foreigner present, then it _would_ be a considerable effort to abstain for six years
and never let on that we actually liked the stuff.
Can we drop the eating-horsemeat analogy? It just doesn't work.
>But yeah, I know. I'm just playing devil's advocate on this one.
I suppose it's good that somebody's doing it. It's not unheard of for
linguists to be misled by their informants. I only skimmed Everett's paper, but I
assume he considered the possibility.
Doug