From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Aug 06 04:06:50 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 06 Aug 2005 04:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1E1MVg-00067S-Qi for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 04:06:37 -0700 Received: from thestonecutters.net ([63.251.19.112] helo=chert.thestonecutters.net) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1E1MVa-00067L-Sa for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 04:06:36 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (h-68-167-66-165.nycmny83.dynamic.covad.net [68.167.66.165]) by chert.thestonecutters.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF70A148009 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 06:53:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42F499B2.4060500@thestonecutters.net> Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 07:06:26 -0400 From: 2 = 3 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Studies of Amazonian languages challenge linguistic theories X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 10316 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Yet, the Pirahã language and culture has several features that not known to exist in any other in the world and lacks features that have been assumed to be found in all human groups. The language does not have color words or grammatical devices for putting phrases inside other phrases....Moreover, Pirahã suggests that it is not always possible to translate from one language to another. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uocp-soa080205.php To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.