Re: Etymology of anthropo-

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:08:48 GMT

David Wright Sr. wrote:
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in
> news:422B1845.6939@worldnet.att.net:
>
> >> That's obvious. you start off 'forth' or otherwise you couldn't have
> >> gotten to where you are, because you would still be 'back'. ;-)>
> >
> > How could you start off anything other than first?
> >
>
> I got 'forth' 'last' not 'first'. ;-)>

I know of a Piraha linguist who'd like to hear about someone for whom
that's the last number! 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net