Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site turing.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!turing!aeb From: aeb@turing.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ai,net.nlang Subject: Re: natural language deficiencies? (Sapir-Whorf & Loglan) Message-ID: <216@turing.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 18:54:00 EST Article-I.D.: turing.216 Posted: Mon Oct 29 18:54:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Nov-84 02:46:10 EST References: <801@aplvax.UUCP> <1163@dciem.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 12 > The nature of the Hopi verb/noun tense/factual distinction is interesting > because Whorf used the non-distinction between noun and verb to > argue that the Hopi probably see the world in a different way. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that human thought is essentially limited by language. In order to test this hypothesis James Cooke Brown invented an artificial language LOGLAN. (Easiest accessible reference: Scientific American, June 1960.) Unfortunately, as far as I know, there arent any 'native' speakers of the language as yet. Is there anybody out there who at least speaks it with some fluency? -- Andries Brouwer -- CWI, Amsterdam -- {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!aeb