From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Oct 26 05:33:58 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlONx-0004jb-Q1 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:33:58 -0700 Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net ([68.230.240.8]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlONv-0004j1-MW for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:33:57 -0700 Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20071026123345.OCKB1350.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:33:45 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([72.192.234.183]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id 50Zb1Y00M3y5FKc0000000; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:33:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4721DE8F.9000401@lojban.org> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:33:19 -0400 From: Robert LeChevalier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: ''''''''''' References: <2204fa080710251408l73265a1fh42569c30289e406e@mail.gmail.com> <47211028.8040500@lojban.org> <2204fa080710251516w18930e95mf56628a2e841a688@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2204fa080710251516w18930e95mf56628a2e841a688@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5679 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Jared Angell wrote: > Okay, I'm really curious: Are you a linguist Bob? I have never taken a single course in linguistics (and indeed had no interest in languages for 5 years after college), but after 20+ years I have certainly read a number of linguistics books, and undergone numerous lectures on the error of my linguistic ways. I have a bachelor's degree in Astrophysics from Michigan State, as a coordinate major with a liberal science degree. > And if not then why haven't you received an honorary degree in linguistics by now? I doubt if my work has been worthy of such a thing, and have no idea how such things are decided. And, as I've said, academic linguistics thinks rather poorly of artificial languages. (I've occasionally had pipe dreams of a MacArthur Fellowship, which from the sound of it more suits the sort of thing I do, but they are even more rare and unpredictable). Before I started raising kids, when I had time and energy, I went to a few linguistics conferences, and maintained active correspondence, and as a result, I did make a few friends for us in the linguistics community, so Lojban is perhaps as respected as any artificial language has been. But we have a long way to go, and I don't have the credentials or training (much less the time) to get there. lojbab