back to the future

Wed Feb 27 10:57:16 UTC 2013

An excellent post indeed, but the author is not James Winters but his colleague Sean Roberts.

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The best discussion of Chen's claims that I've seen is here: 
http://www.replicatedtypo.com/whorfian-economics-reconsidered-why-future-tense/5988.html

The author (James Winters, linguist at U Edinburgh) discusses Chen's work seriously and politely.

Martin

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