> from Rich Cooper:
>
> Amazing! But it makes some kind of sense that the past can be
> "seen" while the future is still not available for viewing. (01)
>> from John F. Sowa:
>>
>> The Aymara language, spoken in the Andes highlands, has intrigued
professional
>> and amateur linguists since the Jesuit scholars in the 1600s.
>> Among the many interesting >> features of Aymara is that monolingual
>> native speakers consider the past in front of them,
>> and the future behind them. (02)
Actually, not so amazing. The ancient Greeks did that too, and it
appears in English: "Events overcame me." (03)
-- Jeff Schiffel (04)
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