My hope was to show skewing of description that would correlate with the grammatical structures of their languages
Can you be a little more specific? Perhaps by way of an example of such a correlation (however silly/simplistic) as you expected to see it?
Posted by Anatoly at April 25, 2003 09:04 PMThanks for the followup, LH.
Posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at April 25, 2003 11:19 PMDammit, Anatoly, I was hoping nobody would ask that. Hey, it was over 30 years ago and I was preoccupied with girls and protest, OK? As best I remember, I was expecting that languages with a complex verbal system would describe the pictures in terms of actions, whereas others might give more static/adjectival descriptions. But your imaginings of how it might work are doubtless better than my distant memories of my just-past-teenage ideas.
Posted by language hat at April 25, 2003 11:25 PM