The Importance of Wordplay

In your book you mentioned that, although of course they have words, the idea of a word was not obvious to them. And that you had to do some, go to some effort to get them to break their language up into words and denounce the truth. You must have read something I wrote about this because that's exactly what happened. The biggest difficulty I faced in doing my field research is to get them To realize the notion of a word in where one ended and the next one began. They intuitively knew that, but they didn't know how to explain that to me.