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There’s a fascinating book called Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett that covers the Piraha people in the Amazon. Their language is unusual: no re
by whtrbt 2mo ago
There’s a fascinating book called Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett that covers the Piraha people in the Amazon.
Their language is unusual: no recurrent sentences, almost no discussion of the past. I’m not suggesting they are unconscious but there appears to be something different going on with the Piraha sociolinguistically.
- xhevahir 2mo agoIt is an interesting book, but as far as I know no one has verified Everett's work. I've just noticed this article that talks about it: https://news.mit.edu/2016/data-amazonian-piraha-language-debate-0309 https://news.mit.edu/2016/data-amazonian-piraha-language-deb...
- detourdog 1mo agoCan you describe a recurrent sentence? I can’t think of what it means. I did search but only found examples of recurrent in a sentence.