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[lojban] Re: Experiments in Sapir Whorf

Is there an attitudinal for "playfully facetious"?  ;)

Just like all animals eyes have certain similar mechanisms maybe all languages have certain components out of necessity and these are the "similarities to english" that John is talking about?  I'm not a linguist by profession so I really wouldn't know authoritatively.



On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:05 PM, <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
In a message dated 8/6/2009 00:59:44 Eastern Daylight Time, lukeabergen@gmail.com writes:


yeah, but it still uses words, which english does.  in order to TRUELY test SWH we would need to come up with a whole new way of communicating all-together.  ;)


It still has to be language, though, since that's what SWH is all about.  

stevo