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What about those Amazonian languages like Piraha, which is severely limited in its ability to modify or quantify things? Are you saying they just never have the need or desire to speak what at least we would call clearly, so their language lacks that capacity?There is a basic principle in linguistics that a native speaker of any language has the resources within that language to explain oneself fully and clearly.