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Re: Sapir-WhorFreakiness

From:Mark P. Line <mark@...>
Date:Friday, August 20, 2004, 21:10
Steg Belsky said:
> Weird article a friend of mine showed me... > > http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/08/19/science.counting.reut/ > index.html
Actually, Piraha is much freakier than the article in _Science_ lets on. Also, there may be a reason for much of the freakiness in Piraha that has nothing to do with Sapir-Whorf relativity: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/info/staff/DE/cultgram.pdf -- Mark

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