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Old 04-13-2006, 07:20 AM   #35
MaggieL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clodfobble
Their brains have disposed of those functions in favor of other ones.
Seems more likely to me that rather than having disposed of them, they simply never had them. The (very few) people in question speak Pirahã.

The story about Eskimos having many words for "snow" looks apocryphal, though.
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