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<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><SPAN class="218234122-23032006"><FONT face="Arial" size="3">Comparisons of
languages/cultures based on haphazard linguistic evidence can
result</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial"><SPAN class="218234122-23032006">in
Völkerpsychologie and stereotyping and need to be distrusted. An example would
be:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial"><SPAN class="218234122-23032006"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><SPAN class="218234122-23032006"> </SPAN><STRONG>Thorleif</STRONG> <B>Bomann</B>
(1960) <B>Hebrew</B> <B>Thought</B> <B>Compared</B> with <B>Greek</B>.
Philadelphia: Westminster.<SPAN class="218234122-23032006"><FONT face="Arial" size="3"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><SPAN class="218234122-23032006"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><SPAN class="218234122-23032006"><FONT face="Arial" size="3">Fritz</FONT> </SPAN><BR></FONT><BR><SPAN class="218234122-23032006"><FONT face="Arial"> Bill Poser
wrote:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV><TT>Another way in which words can sort of be missing is if they
have<BR>different grammatical categories in different languages. Nineteenth
century<BR>sources on "primitive" languages often claim that they lack
abstractions,<BR>and these claims are often repeated in the non-professional
literature<BR>even now. This can seem perplexing to those of us who see
enormously<BR>abstract things, like verb roots that mean "to do something by
making an abrupt<BR>motion", which in Carrier underlies "to pick (flowers)", "to
weed (the garden)",<BR>"to snap (a stick) into two pieces", and so forth. What
they often meant was<BR>that the languages they were looking at lacked abstract
nouns such as<BR>"love", "honour", "skill" or uninflected verbal forms
comparable to English<BR>infinitives and gerunds, "to sing" or "singing". This
is actually true of<BR>some languages I know, such as Carrier, but of course one
can perfectly well<BR>talk about these things. It's just that one can't use
nouns to do it: one has<BR>to use inflected verbs.<BR><BR><BR>Bill<BR></TT>
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