"a world of events"
The Daily Mail reports on an Amazonian tribe with no words for "time", "day", or "week":
"'We can now say without doubt that there is at least one language and culture which does not have a concept of time as something that can be measured, counted or talked about in the abstract.
"'We can now say without doubt that there is at least one language and culture which does not have a concept of time as something that can be measured, counted or talked about in the abstract.
'This doesn't mean that the Amondawa are "people outside time", but they live in a world of events, rather than seeing events as being embedded in time."
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