From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Sat Aug 21 14:50:42 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [216.189.121.177] (helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bydkt-0007Wm-VU for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:50:32 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B467E4B1E; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 21:50:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Piraha and SWH Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:50:01 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408211750.01404.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 8524 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Saturday 21 August 2004 16:28, Craig Daniel wrote: > I think it's more useful to give them a culture word of their own > such as "prenrpira'a". I prefer "prenrpira'ana" - it doesn't sound right without the nasal. But where does the name "Pirahã" come from? It's not what they call themselves. phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa