>I don't believe that the type of language spoken or cultural
>attitude _shapes_ gloranthan reality.
Then we agree.
>not even the Piraha would be so resistant to change.
These are the people who realized they were
getting cheated by traders, ASKED to learn how to
count, and couldn't. (See the Wikipedia page on
their language
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirahã_language>.)
The point isn't that they intentionally resist
change, or are too stupid to.
Whether or not they end up verifying the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, they are a model for how something similar could work in Glorantha. Which to my mind makes the Lightbringer missionaries even more worthy, to have broken through somehow. (Apparently by finding some vestigial culture they could hook into.)
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David Dunham
Glorantha/HQ/RQ page: www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html
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