Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel Everett – review
The bitter arguments about a language instinct Tim Radford guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 March 2012 Native speakers of Pirahã, in the Amazon lowland jungle, have no words for left or right, they use the same term for blue and green, and their definitions of red, black and white turn out to be similes, rather than dedicated words. These once-isolated people, a tiny group, have no...

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