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- Brazil's Pirahã Tribe: Living without Numbers or Time
  Posted by Garrett from Spiegel
  The Pirahã people have no history, no descriptive words and no subordinate clauses. That makes their language one of the strangest in the world -- and also one of the most hotly debated by linguists.
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- Lakoff on Bush: Stay the Course Right Off a Cliff
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  “Listen, we’ve never been stay the course, George,” President Bush told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News a day earlier. Saying that just reminds us of all the times he said “stay the course.” What the president is discovering is that it’s not so easy to rewrite linguistic history. The laws of language are hard to defy.
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- Bush Confounded by the 'Unacceptable'
  Posted by Jon from Washington Post
  In the first nine months of this year, Bush declared more than twice as many events or outcomes "unacceptable" or "not acceptable" as he did in all of 2005, and nearly four times as many as he did in 2004. He is, in fact, at a presidential career high in denouncing events he considers intolerable.
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Brazil's Pirahã Tribe: Living without Numbers or Time

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