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A comment on Brazil's Pirahã Tribe: Living Without Numbers or Time (2006).

Re:Brazil's Pirahã Tribe: Living Without Numbers or Time (2006) by state on Friday December 19, 2014 @02:27PM (#8773983)
I love this story.

This talk (by Everett) is a lot of fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNajfMZGnuo

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Re:Brazil's Pirahã Tribe: Living Without Numbers or Time (2006) by cheeseprocedure on Friday December 19, 2014 @05:22PM (#8774894)
His book "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes" is worth a read too (though a more ruthless editor may have helped even it out).
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Re:Brazil's Pirahã Tribe: Living Without Numbers or Time (2006) by vsviridov on Friday December 19, 2014 @06:07PM (#8775087)
I straight up skipped all the explanations about the actual dialog, but, then again, I'm not a linguist.
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