Friday, October 20, 2006

Your Wikipedia Sentence For Today

"I'd really like you to make arrows" -- Sample sentence of the Pirahã language. Helps if you say it with a wink, or leer.

First Runner up:

"It is the belief of the Pirahã people that their language is the best one to speak." -- Shows commendable patriotism, but is marred by being wrong.

Second Runner up:

"He [an anthropologist] conjectures that the Pirahã had not used that phoneme in his presence before because they were ridiculed whenever non-Pirahã heard the sound." -- Awww.

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