[Lingtyp] query: cumulative songs

Arnold Zwicky arnold.zwicky at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 16:28:07 UTC 2023



> On Feb 12, 2023, at 7:59 AM, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A point of clarification seems needed. "Weird" societies refers to the notion that Joseph Henrich's popularized: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic humans are overrepresented in psychological (and linguistic) studies but their cultures are not representative of the full range of human traits.
> Claire

Thanks to Claire for his. Many people regularly use all-caps WEIRD to make it clear that a special usage is at play; I recommend it.

Arnold



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