Folder: mail-procmail-2008-11-18/2007-02-20-160800-voynich
From owner-vms-list@voynich.net  Sat Jul 15 05:43:51 2006
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:29:30 +1100
To: vms-list@voynich.net
Subject: Re: VMs: Kircher, Piraha
References: <200607150209.AA382927470@mail.asus.net>
From: "Jacques Guy" <jbmguy@aapt.net.au>
Message-ID: <op.tcp1vgp4typ5yo@system>
In-Reply-To: <200607150209.AA382927470@mail.asus.net>

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:09:31 +1100, Dennis S. <tsalagi@asus.net> wrote:

> Piraha has been mentionned here a few times because Piraha has a very  
> small phonemic inventory.  The stuff on them sounds like an urban  
> legend, though.

I am sure that Piraha is a hoax perpetrated upon a gullible linguist,
Everett, by an Amazonian tribe. He has been at it for 20 years or more
and only a handful of bilingual texts have been published. I found most
on the Net, and they do not make any sense at all. If Piraha does exist
then Everett cannot speak it (nor understand it), as his interlinear
translations show it abundantly. And those two words: hoi and hoí.
The first means "one" or "small", the second means "two" or "many" or
"big". Pull the other one. And they differ only by the tone of the
second syllable! What a joke.