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In article <8565@charon.cwi.nl>, frankt@cwi.nl (Frank Teusink) writes:
|> colinb@.ic.ac.uk (Dr C. Bridgewater) writes:
|> 
|> >Anthropologist says that a tribe in Africa have a 1-2-many number
|> >system because of elephants.... Why ? Well, it's possible to avoid
|> >1 mad elephant quite easily. A brave and fleet-of-foot person may
|> >avoid 2 mad elephants, but after that no-one has a chance. Hence
|> >there is no need for them to have a higher number than the number
|> >of elephants a hunter can escape from.....
|> 
|> I find it hard to believe this. Everybody who has seen many mad
|> elephants dies before he/she can communicate the concept of the
|> existence of many mad elephants to the tribe. So, how did they
|> find out about the possible existence of many mad elephants?
|> 
|> Bye, ;-)
|> 
|> Frank Teusink

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