Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 16:48:14 -0400

Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:

> -- a fact probably associated to the traditional confusion of blue
> and green (an Altaic feature?).

Unlikely, since it is also a feature of many older IE languages, and seems
to be associated worldwide with a lower technological level.

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