ANTHR110 Lecture : Linguistic Aspects of Culture
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Metaphors about different planets: historians saw that the past is a different country, anthropologists work under the assumption that they can figure it out. Italian is a language that is smooth and flowing, just like the italian people: german is harsh and guttural, like the german people, people still use these mini-theories, they are very often prejudicial, especially concerning primitive societies. People would say that they only had 200-400 words in their language, indicating their primitive status. In truth, there is no language in the world that has been extensively studied that has been shown to have less than thousands of words. It turns out that societies chop up the world of color in many different ways. Each society has a different set of words, but they do not cover the same segment of the color spectrum. They are the most famous of the pueblo indians. Whorf said that in hopi there are no words that directly refer to time.