From Pycyn@aol.com Sun Feb 6 14:30:36 2000 X-Digest-Num: 356 Message-ID: <44114.356.1942.959273826@eGroups.com> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 17:30:36 EST From: Pycyn@aol.com Subject: Re: On the 2/3 flood SAE = Standard Average European, the metaphysico-grammatical commonality of Romance, Slavic and Germanic languages which marked the built in thought pattern of westerners, according to Whorf. It is not clear just what all is included but certain the noun-adjective-verb distinction grammatically that pointed (or from) the thing-property-action metaphysics (independent things have dependent properties and participate in more dependednt actions -- all of which are eventually things again). Probably also obligatory tense and time as external and linear (or partially ordered), gender and sex differentiation even in inanimates, and whatever else differeed markedly from Hopi (verbs throughout, circular time, process metaphysics, ...) pc