[MD] Aymara - already posted perhaps?

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To quote Robert Burns from "To a Mouse"

"But little Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!

Still you are blest, compared with me!
The present only touches you:
But oh! I backward cast my eye,
On prospects dreary!
And forward, though I cannot see,
I guess and fear!"

Or, "Life is what happens while you are making other plans"

Good luck with your diligent planning, I will take what comes!

Cheers,
Mark

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Carl Thames <cthames at centurytel.net> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael R. Brown" <mrb at fuguewriter.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 8:22 PM
> Subject: [MD] Aymara - already posted perhaps?
>
>
>> Tell an old Aymara speaker to "face the past!" and you just might get a
>> blank stare in return – because he or she already does.
>>
>> New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous
>> Aymara people indicates a reverse concept of time.
>>
>> Contrary to what had been thought a cognitive universal among humans – a
>> spatial metaphor for chronology, based partly on our bodies' orientation and
>> locomotion, that places the future ahead of oneself and the past behind –
>> the Amerindian group locates this imaginary abstraction the other way
>> around: with the past ahead and the future behind.
>>
>> - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060613185239.htm
>
>
> Their way of referring to time doesn't mean a reversal of the norm, just
> that they use a different concept in regards to expressing time.  They still
> think of it the same way, in that what has already happened is clear to
> them, while the future is unknown.  That doesn't mean they live in the past,
> just that they know about it.  The author was fairly confusing, but I had
> the reaction of, "they point backward to the future because they can't see
> it" before I got to that part of the article.  It also depicts a fairly lax
> attitude toward planning....
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