From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Sun Apr 07 06:50:30 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: robin@real-time.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 7 Apr 2002 13:50:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 42291 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2002 13:50:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Apr 2002 13:50:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (139.179.111.19) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Apr 2002 13:50:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g37F3Rs01207 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 18:03:27 +0300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Whorf Hypothesis in Scientific American Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 18:03:27 +0300 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02040718032700.01159@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Robin Turner Reply-To: robin@bilkent.edu.tr X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810606 X-Yahoo-Profile: digambaranath On Wednesday 27 March 2002 14:20, And Rosta wrote: > > http://www.scientificamerican.com/explorations/2002/032502language/ The article betrays a lack of knowledge of the literature, speaking as it does of a Whorfian revival in the 1990s. Berlin and Kay were doing research on colour terms way back, and George Lakoff had already started rehabilitating some of Whorf's ideas in the 1980s. robin.tr