Thiago,
First: thank you for that interesting glimpse of the philosophy, and
hence the spiritual essence, of those Brazilian tribes. i look forward
to hearing more about them from you and your friend at the university.
> Another interesting example: some dialects have only some numbers, the
> count goes like:1, 2, 3, 4 and "many". When something is bigger than 4 it
> falls into an unpatterned category which can be 5 or 80, that is: "many"
> can only be known by direct experience.
I was wondering if you knew anything more about this. what i mean is,
how is it that a situation has never come up in which a higher number,
like 5, was needed? Say, for instance, that a scout had to report 5
warriors of an enemy tribe approaching. it would have been so easy to
indicate this (a man has 5 fingers). i am surprised that the number
wouldn't have been named like the other 4 were. i just would think that
numbers would be incredibly essential to every culture, no matter how
primitive. {:o) So I'm fascinated by this concept, but honestly i
really don't have any specific questions in mind. I'm just hoping that
you or some other Squad member has some good insight or thought on this
in order to get a deeper sense of it.
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