Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliveb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!oliveb!jerry From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) Newsgroups: net.ai,net.nlang Subject: Re: Sanskrit (actually natural languages deficiencies) Message-ID: <194@oliveb.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 17:55:36 EDT Article-I.D.: oliveb.194 Posted: Tue Oct 16 17:55:36 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Oct-84 07:18:16 EDT References: <12582@sri-arpa.UUCP> <12300003@uicsl.UUCP> Organization: Olivetti ATC, Cupertino, Ca Lines: 16 >> J. Morgan uicsl!morgan >> ...................................... There do not seem to be any >> languages with any kind of expressive deficit. ...................... This struck a choard. I remember a PBS TV show about the Australian aborigines and the difficulties studying them. There is apparently no way to phrase "what if" types of questions. The anthropologists had to tell them a thing was so, get their response, and then tell them it was not so. This would seem to me to be a serious "expressive deficit". Any aborigines on the net care to verify this? Jerry Aguirre {hplabs|fortune|idi|ihnp4|ios|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!jerry