Nieuwe ontdekking: Nootka indianen (Canada) maken uitgebreid gebruikt van de ontvangers fysieke characteristieken in hun werkwoorden
"It is possible and often costumary in Nootka to imply in speech some physical characteristic of the person addressed of spoken of, partly by means of suffixed elements, partly by means of consonantal play. (...) The physical classes indicated by these methods are children, unusually fat or heavy people, unusually short adults, those suffering from some defect of the eye, hunchbacks, those that are lame, left-handed persons and circumcised males".
-- aldus:
E. Sapir (1915), Abnormal Types of SpeechMisschien zou de westelijke wereld minder obese zijn als in werkwoorden gesproken tegen obese mensen altijd hun gewicht expliciet werd genoemd