OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> At 7/26/2010 05:52 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote [Quoting the WSJ]:
> >>Some indigenous tribes say north, south, east and west, rather than
> >>left and right, and as a consequence have great spatial orientation.
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And yet, I know people who have all six words, and can't find their ass
in the dark with a headlamp and a map.

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