From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Oct 29 14:03:56 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:03:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KvICq-0003M8-Gt for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:03:56 -0700 Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KvICh-0003Kt-2H for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:03:56 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206EE94795 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:03:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id m9TL3KZc006501 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:03:20 +0100 Received: (from arj@localhost) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id m9TL3KQn006500 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:03:20 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:03:20 +0100 From: Arnt Richard Johansen To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A bystander question concerning the recent CFG challenge Message-ID: <20081029210320.GE2447@nvg.org> References: <4de8c3930810291219u676f9eeeva64f008220f399aa@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4de8c3930810291219u676f9eeeva64f008220f399aa@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.ntnu.no X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 959 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:19:22PM +0100, tijlan wrote: > My knowledge of computer science and its academy is pretty limited, so > my question might sound silly. Why is it that Lojban (it seems) has > little involvement from such institutions as MIT? In short, because constructed languages are considered frivolous by the academic establishment, and therefore unworthy of study. See: http://dedalvs.free.fr/notes/manifesto.php In general, about the silliness taboo in academia: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/arbitrary-silli.html -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Read This Before Opening Package: According to Certain Suggested Versions of a Grand Unified Theory, the Primary Particles Constituting This Product May Decay to Nothingness Within the Next Four Hundred Million Years. --Susan Hewitt and Edward Subitzky