[lit-ideas] Re: Twitter

It's in the April 16, 2007 issue of the New Yorker. Unfortunately, it's not on line. They only have a slide show of pictures, which is like having nothing at all. The article is called, "The Interpreter: The puzzling language of an Amazon tribe". The library probably has it.
I have the issue but haven't read it yet. (Is this twittering?) There's a letter in response to it in the most recent issue from three linguists--one at Harvard, one at MIT, and one at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, in Brazil--who claim that '[there is] much that [is] interesting about Piraha,' (the language in question), 'but virtually every point [of alleged uniqueness] turned out to have precedents in languages spoken in cultures that have none of the features attributed to the Piraha. We concluded that the Piraha language actually demonstrates a striking _independence_ of culture and language.'
There should be a ~ above the last 'a' in Piraha, but I can't manage to get one to stay there. 

Robeert Paul
Reedlie Tech

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