From cowan@ccil.org Thu Aug 27 10:49:47 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.ccil.org ([192.190.237.11]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mgj6U-0005Ls-VB for llg-members@lojban.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:49:46 -0700 Received: from cowan by earth.ccil.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Mgj6U-0000Et-8F for llg-members@lojban.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:49:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:49:42 -0400 To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: Motion: Lojban Certification Program Message-ID: <20090827174942.GC27939@mercury.ccil.org> References: <925d17560908261436r7364022dn735a98e5851cc7f9@mail.gmail.com> <200908270711.14068.phma@phma.optus.nu> <4A96BCF9.1020305@kli.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A96BCF9.1020305@kli.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: John Cowan X-archive-position: 759 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cowan@ccil.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members Mark E. Shoulson scripsit: > Similarly, seven levels might be too many. Yeah, but we're *Lojbanists*. We're all about seven levels of things: from naisai to sai. Seriously, I think you're right. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Historians aren't constantly confronted with people who carry on self-confidently about the rule against adultery in the sixth amendment to the Declamation of Independence, as written by Benjamin Hamilton. Computer scientists aren't always having to correct people who make bold assertions about the value of Objectivist Programming, as examplified in the HCNL entities stored in Relaxational Databases. --Mark Liberman