Tópico: [en]BRAZIL'S PIRAHÃ TRIBE - Living without Numbers or Time

[Guinevere]

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,414291,00.html

The Pirahã people have no history, no descriptive words and no subordinate clauses. That makes their language one of the strangest in the world -- and also one of the most hotly debated by linguists.

Worht a read! I found it very interesting!

[Guinevere]

Huh! It's hard to believe, they dont ...

... they have no...


... names for colors!!!!

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I've already listened/read about it. It's very interesting, really!

[Guinevere]

It's  a lot... strange... I've read some comments toward this tribe being "the Ultimate Zen Culture", but I know even the founder of Zen school knew numbers and colors...