OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/26/2010 05:52 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote [Quoting the WSJ]:
>>Some indigenous tribes say north, south, east and west, rather than
>>left and right, and as a consequence have great spatial orientation.

The "wild Irish," when recruited into the British army, rather than
left or right would be commanded to turn toward bread or
cheese.  Having been given those two staples of the contemporary diet
for their respective pockets.  According to John Dunton, circa 1696,
while temporarily resident in Massachusetts..  Who would probably
have agreed that they had lesser spatial orientation than the
indigenous tribes.

Joel

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