"There are things all around. Things you never see because you don't have the words, you don't have the names. you only learned the 26-letter alphabet.
"Here are some names for things...." - Grant Morrison, The Invisibles
Speaking the World
There are only, maybe, 350 members of the Pirahã tribe, but its language is confounding linguists for all that it lacks. There are no subordinate clauses and no past tense; no words for colours and hardly any for time. The language contains no numbers.
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Wednesday, 7 November 2007
The Unnameable
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