, having a self-imposed weekly deadline has been immeasurably helpful in getting me to consistently sit down, put finger to keyboard and actually produce some-fucking-thing on a regular basis, so I want to keep on putting stuff out for people to read at regular intervals. I’m not quite ...
Daniel Everett, for example, has devoted over 30 years of his life to living in the center of the Amazon rain forest documenting the Pirahã people. His work describing Pirahã communication has revealed holes in the previously thought to be universal theories for human phonetics and grammar....