[CPT-FGC] Re: [CPT-RPG] Re: Stuff off

  • From: "Donaldson, Alasdair" <alasdair.donaldson@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:01:14 +0000

I've read about languages without the concept of direction. A lack of a word 
for a direction actually makes it very difficult for the people to remember 
where things are.
Similarly there are a tribe of Aborigines who use the cardinal directions 
instead of normal left and right and stuff. So they'd say 'just go 20 meters 
NW, then another 50m NNW or stuff like that'. One of the strange things is that 
you can blind fold the guy and put him most anywhere and intuitively he knows 
which direction is north.


From: cpt-fgc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cpt-fgc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Ilitirit Sama
Sent: 18 October 2013 2:57 PM
To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [CPT-FGC] Re: [CPT-RPG] Re: Stuff off

Some of you guys may have read about the Pirahã.  They are a tribe in the 
Amazon that whose language doesn't have a concept of numbers.  Our vs their 
understanding of quantities is akin to digital vs analog.

This is the best case of the Dunning-Kruger 
effect<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect> I've read 
about so far:
Nothing about the Pirahã's self-contained way of life seems to require quantity 
recognition over three, says Everett, a fact that's not lost on outsiders, who 
sometimes take advantage of them when trading goods.

The Pirahã consider all forms of human discourse other than their own to be 
laughably inferior, and they are unique among Amazonian peoples in remaining 
monolingual.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2013/10/16/piraha_cognitive_anumeracy_in_a_language_without_numbers.html









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