Re: Sapir-WhorFreakiness

Mark P. Line wrote:

>Steg Belsky said:
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>>Weird article a friend of mine showed me...
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>>http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/08/19/science.counting.reut/
>>index.html
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>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:
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>http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/info/staff/DE/cultgram.pdf
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That seems very, very odd.  Is it perhaps possible that they've
developed language independently, only recently?

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