Re: Language and Culture

From: David Dunham <david_at__spGDg-V8-yobz2zhFuJdpZDkVaaSFho2piDipqzo9rRisAnEV6At_6sOwkSZhths6uFfc>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:03:45 -0700

> >I think this may help answer one Gloranthan question: how could many
>>of the cultures that survived the Darkness not realize that the Dawn
>>had arrived?
>
>This strikes me as a suggestion that spoken language or cultural
>attitude shapes reality, which is dubious.

The article says that the research may confirm the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (though I don't believe they name it).

In any case, this isn't really the forum for detailed (and likely controversial) linguistic debate. I brought this up because of its MGF possibilities. Bad science (and I'm not saying that Everett's work is such) is often far more entertaining and playable. IMO two examples are the idea of waves of invading culture-holders (rather than diffusion of ideas), and Sir Arthur Evans's reconstructions of Knossos.

>I prefer to think that
>until the Sunstop, the perception of the Sky World

I think this is an entirely different phenomenon. The Lightbringer missionaries were able to enlighten folk long before Sunstop. <http://www.glorantha.com/new/myth.html> (It's not that the Dawn hadn't happened, but people weren't able to realize that things had drastically changed.)

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David Dunham
Glorantha/HQ/RQ page: www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html