No recursion in the Rain Forest?

Someone left an interesting link on my blog:

http://edge.org/3rd_culture/everett0...t07_index.html

It's about language, faith, and...Lispers separated at birth?:

"The Pirahã's isolation is due to their very strong sense of
superiority, and disdain for other cultures. Far from thinking of
themselves as inferior because they lack counting, they consider their
way of life the best possible way of life, and so they're not interested
in assimilating other values."

Not sure? Let's see how they feel about static typing:

"They have another interesting value, which is 'no coercion'. "

QfrickinED if you ask me.

Another interesting angle: missionary goes to convert tribe. Tribe
happens to have a solid cultural bias /against/ buying into stuff one
has never experienced oneself. Missionary loses faith. Does not say if
he is a seven or an eight, tho.

Guy happens to dis the Chomsker universal grammar faith, gets into more
trouble for dumping Chomsky than God.

kt
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