For want of a word
New Scientist, 31/jan/2004. Entrevista com Alexandra Aikhenvald (La Trobe University, Austrália). "Imagine how different politics would be if debates were conducted in Tariana, an Amazonian language in which it is a grammatical error to report something without saying how you found it out - as Alexandra Aikhenvald tells us its speakers tell her. Tariana is in danger of dying. With each such disappearance we risk losing insights into different ways of thinking. Aikhenvald told Adrian Barnett about the race to record languages."

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg18124326.200.html



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