Aymara's time metaphor reversed? Yahgan says....

[D.L. Everett]

I did not intend to impugn the article or its authors. I was  
referring to popular interpretation of the article, not the article  
itself. So let me make that clear here. I assume that when I read the  
article I will see which of the authors did the fieldwork, or whether  
it was based only on secondary sources,  and how the connections  
between culture and language were drawn.

But let me repeat that I was only commenting on popular  
interpretations of the article. Not the professional conclusions of  
the eminent authors.

Dan



On 15 Jun 2006, at 18:07, Gilles Fauconnier wrote:

>
>>
>> I don't find claims that Aymara think backwards about time much
>> different than the claim that their language is 'truly logical'.
>>
>
> It wouldn't hurt to take a look at the "Cognitive Science" article,
> co-authored, after all, by an eminent linguist and a distinguished
> cognitive scientist.
>
>  --
> Gilles Fauconnier
> University of California San Diego
> La Jolla CA 92093
>
> E-mail    gfauconnier at ucsd.edu
> http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~faucon/
>