| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 21, 2004, 11:50 |
In a message dated 8/21/2004 1:15:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mark@POLYMATHIX.COM writes:>Alternatively, maybe there is an additional cultural constraint that >cannot, due to its nature, be discovered by outsiders: "Don't talk >straight with outsiders."Not even with an outsider who lived among the Piraha for _six years_, as Everett says he did in his paper? That would be a _lot_ of effort. Doug