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From: meus0001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (William E Meuse)
Subject: Re: Correction of PBS Nova lies
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 23:16:25 GMT
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s25@ctdvx5.priv.ornl.gov wrote:
:    meus0001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (William E Meuse) writes:
:  
: > of putting together your world-view and the whole way you cannect things. 
: > cannection between the self (I) and the organ "eye" that is not found in 
: > most other languages. Thus English may be said to be the eye's language. 
: > A speaker of another language might identify more strongly with the nose, 
: > languages have such unique facial expressions from one another. This 
: > might be taking it a little too far, but what would you say to the 
: > following proposed correlations? Japanese - the nose's language. Chinese - 
: > the ear's language. French - the heart's language... 
: What would I say? Either you're trolling, or you're nuts.
: My God. I certainly hope the poster is a student at the University of
: Minnesota, and not a faculty member.

 I must canfess that I don't know what 'trolling' implies, but can assure 
you, Iman na nuts! 

 In case you didn't know this, when a native Japanese speaker points to 
himself, he points to his nose rather than to his chest. Indeed, the 
pictogram (kanji) for 'I' even incorporates a large crude sketch of a nose.

 I picked Chinese for ears because of its tones, soaring like an eagle.

 Francaise, dans sa capacite de la langue sympathique de la coeur, c'est 
facile a le voir.

 And many speakers of English speak with a laxer tongue (with the tongue 
positioned less rigidly in the mouth) than in most languages. Why? 
Because they're more worried about their eyes! So now. 

Cool runnins everytime, Ras William I
