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Whorfian, non-lojbanic
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- Subject: Whorfian, non-lojbanic
- From: "Cyril Slobin" <slobin@ice.ru>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:28:27 +0400
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A funny Whorfian hypothesis was born today in a political discussion:
maybe Russians are biased towards socialist and totalitarian systems
just because there are no difference between verbs "can" and "may"
in Russian language?
--
Cyril Slobin <slobin@ice.ru> `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said,
http://wagner.pp.ru/~slobin/ `it means just what I choose it to mean'