Piraha

[Jonathan Lighter]

Cause your linguistics students to read John Colapinto's "The Interpreter" in the current  _New Yorker_ (Apr. 16).

  It's about the Amazonian people whose language only counts to two. Many other odd linguistic and sociolinguistic elements are described also.

  JL


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