<font size="2">Thanks Dave,</font><div><font size="2">great article, love this stuff! ....</font> it makes me ask some "different" questions.</div><div>Makes me want to analyze the analyzers, probe the probers, to study the  studiers,.</div>
<div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>- what is it that makes certain people groups analyze other people groups?</i><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>- why is it NOT important for some people groups to analyze other people groups? </i></span></i></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i>- has there been a specific anthropological study on anthropologists?</i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">- <i>is it a cultural motivated desire to find patterns and to comprehend everything that exists?</i></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i>-why do some cultural groups seem free from a desire to understand everything in the universe?</i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
- <i>is continual knowledge harvesting a lingering desire of conquest or is it preeminent curiosity?</i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_quote">wow this list could keep going...</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Richard Zane Smith</div><div class="gmail_quote">Wyandotte Oklahoma</div><div class="gmail_quote"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Dave Pearson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave_pearson@sil.org">dave_pearson@sil.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Guy Deutscher’s </span></span><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">article in yesterday’s New York Times, “Does Your Language Shape
How You Think?” is a stimulating challenge to the linguacentric assumptions
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html</a><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"></span></span></p>


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