OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Mon Jul 26 16:00:47 UTC 2010


At 7/26/2010 09:41 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>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.

Perhaps they lack the third dimension -- "up" and "down".

Joel

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