Anybody remember that article about the South American language/culture that rejected assumptions?
@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.
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@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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