Life in the fast lane
Deep in the Amazonian rainforest, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, lives the Amondawa tribe, a people without a sense of time. Does that mean that they live in a perpetual present? That for this tribe, nothing has ever happened, and nothing ever will?
Well, not quite. What the Amondawa lack is a linguistic term for the abstract concept of time. More specifically, researchers who spent time with the Amondawa claimed that the tribe lacked what some experts had thought to be a universal trait: the metaphoric mapping of time using the lexicon and grammar of space and motion. In other words, unlike just about every language ever
