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HW help!! how would you make inferences given only few limited evidences?I got a HW from my Eng comp class. and I have no idea how to describe their tribe's life style? =================Abstract=============...Every language is also a special way of looking at the world and interpreting experience. Concealed in the structure of language is a whole set of unconscious assumptions about the world and the life in it.======================================...contents :Three words for terrain, designating "absolutely flat,rolling, and slightly hilly."No word for ocean.Dozens of terms for grains, including eight for wheat alone.Several words for children, some of which translate as a wise small one, innocent leader,and little stargazer.Seven terms to describe the stages of life up to puberty; only one term to describe life from puberty to death.The word for sex translates as "to plant a wise one."Terms for woman are synonymous with "wife and mother."Terms for man are synonymous with "husband and father."Twenty words for book.No words for violent conflict or war. Nine words for artist.Terms for praise translate as "peacemaker and conciliator."While there are words for cow, pig, calf, and sheep, there are no terms for beef, pork, veal, leather, or mutton.Several words for precipitation, most translating as "rain." only one meaning "snow."Several words for leader but all are plural.Four words meaning theater.