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Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers
In 2004 we discussed the Piraha, a tribe in the Amazon, when a study appeared characterizing their language as a "one, two, many" language. Now reader mu22le informs us of a new study of the Piraha pointing to the possibility that they use no number words at all. Instead they seem to use the word formerly thought to mean "two" to represent a quantity of 5 or 6, and the "one" word for anything from 1 to 4. The language has about 300 native speakers. "The study... offers evidence that number words are a concept invented by human cultures as they are needed, and not an inherent part of language, Gibson said."
Frost, hoar, slush, ice, black ice, falling, dusting, lying, drift, blizzard.
Clearly you - like your hero, Hitler - are simply saying that those retarded Nanooks are incapable of constructing such a rich language as English, the language of Shakespeare and the Baby Jesus.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Fucking savages...kill 'em all I say, who needs neolithic mongoloids like these people wandering around in this modern world of ours anyway? It'll be for the best, trust us.