Unlocking the secret sounds of language

Richard Smith rzs at TDS.NET
Wed May 10 04:44:12 UTC 2006


yeah Jan,
You found some I missed!
Yes,planning does take some projection -
using present tenses
even I could do that
"Ok we take this guy out and put some arrows in him.
 we show the moon he traps our words on white bark"
rzs

On 5/9/06 8:06 AM, "Jan Tucker" <jtucker at starband.net> wrote:

> Richard,
> 
> Great questions! I had problems too with the discussion of "past-tense" and
> the illustrations such as how thrilled the people are to see someone coming
> down the path as some kind of example of living in the present only. Then
> they do remember their parents, and grandparents. They certainly planned to
> kill the missionary in the future during the full moon didn't they?



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