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[lojban] Re: Experiments in Sapir Whorf

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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:47:07 EDT
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In a message dated 8/6/2009 14:14:38 Eastern Daylight Time, lukeabergen@gmail.com writes:

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.

Those commonalities among languages are what is known as "universal grammar".

stevo

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