From lojban@solipsys.co.uk Sat Aug 21 15:34:40 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban@solipsys.co.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 87917 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2004 22:34:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 21 Aug 2004 22:34:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n36.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.104) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Aug 2004 22:34:40 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.144] by n36.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 21 Aug 2004 22:34:40 -0000 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 22:34:40 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20040820083359.GA7469@fysh.org> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 633 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-compose X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 66.218.66.104 From: "riderofgiraffes" X-Originating-IP: 194.153.10.165 Subject: Re: Piraha and SWH X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=195115829 X-Yahoo-Profile: riderofgiraffes X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22942 --- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Zefram wrote: > ... the Piraha group of Amazonian Indians ... > ... words for "few" and "many", but not "one", "two", > or "three". Piraha people turn out to be incapable > of the simplest counting tasks. They're unable to > distinguish between groups of four and five objects. > When asked to copy a group of identical objects, they > can't accurately reproduce any number higher than about > four. It's an interesting case for the SWH. > > I can't find a copy of the article online, ... Try http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996303