Chomsky's theory says that “when we don't feel the shift it is still there, in an abstract lever of grammar [called] logical form” (207). The Piraha language, however, reveals that there is no need for displacement or major modifications for a message to be transmitted. The Piraha are an esoteric culture, meaning that because they are such a small group of people, their language is constructed so that only they may be able to understand it, except for the few who are able to decipher it like Everett . This means that grammar is not necessarily necessary to understand the other. This then leads to the idea that the Piraha language has no recursion or ability to relate repeated elements of the same structure. A Piraha sentence is short and simple, it has no inserted sentences to make a sentence longer or more efficient. An example of this is that of a Piraha, Kohoi, who was making arrows and needed some nails for the tip. He tells his son “Hey Paita, bring back some nails. Dan bought those very nails. They are the same.” (227). From this we can see that there are no sentences inserted inside another sentence. Each sentence is said separately from the other to convey the whole