Anybody remember that article about the South American language/culture that rejected assumptions?
So it was full of constructions like 'the woman who was my wife the last time I checked'?
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@St_Rev The Pirahã? -
@Spivonomist I thought it was the Piraha but I skimmed the article in the New Yorker and it didn't seem like the same language. -
@Spivonomist Might have been the output of a telephone game starting with that article, though. -
@St_Rev The thing that stuck me about the Pirahã was the lack of numbers beyond 2. -
@Spivonomist Yeah, the one I'm trying to find was more like a tribe of ideal logicians: "the cow is brown on the side facing me".
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@St_Rev "Rev, who is a St. and a Dr. and a Rev, last time I checked" -
@St_Rev you should have a street named after you. It would be St. Rev Dr. Rev St. -
@DeityOfReligion Then we could name a drive after the street. It would be St. Rev. Dr. Rev. St. Dr.
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@St_Rev Don't you mean "the woman who was my wife the last time I checked, if I recall correctly"? -
@slatestarcodex I am trying to reproduce the style of the article, not the way I speak in RL
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