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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
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Subject: Re: Sanskrit (actually natural languages deficiencies)
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Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 17:55:36 EDT
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>> 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
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