From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Oct 29 15:22:25 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KvJQn-000705-Dm for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:22:25 -0700 Received: from web24005.mail.ird.yahoo.com ([87.248.114.92]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KvJQg-0006yS-5V for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:22:25 -0700 Received: (qmail 97545 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Oct 2008 22:22:11 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=LisyuMcDZJxIeIISvU2vuD+Q3NlibmltHB+8NipH5I89mbU2xZaP26mbjihCtTwKMZjCFZ1JUriT1VJeCzVAIM+GsxHdj+R/M6acQajRC2jCzN3qopnvG7nB4bsRPKCDj7pcoJQZOgCNsGlCg/VyiD3vDyGnaodkP6tD0EH6n+M=; X-YMail-OSG: Tm1klhQVM1mF_u_ix8MpaXYBrVApFvwuQ.dbJmFsJYsLJKqntnm48j4Wznxx.79B6zoQom7V4G.ZV23DrD7Lu0DzQ3x8WuOi1uG4Mu1m6asr4_i2IVmbRJWPGka.088NAyAcS_c78TYrDh9bwY6VDvjYfbXJBxKovyeqEFjjtNFqEgysd_uYczxnqKA- Received: from [89.242.211.191] by web24005.mail.ird.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:22:11 GMT Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:22:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Fiat Knox Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A bystander question concerning the recent CFG challenge To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20081029210320.GE2447@nvg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Message-ID: <423114.97241.qm@web24005.mail.ird.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 960 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners --- On Wed, 29/10/08, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > From: Arnt Richard Johansen > Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A bystander question concerning the recent CFG challenge > To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org > Date: Wednesday, 29 October, 2008, 9:03 PM > 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. Or, as I suspect, lojban is far beyond their ability to grasp. :) Peace, Alex. "Oh, I love it when they /ask/ me to corrupt them ..." - Me, talking to Nai, Mar 01 2008 "You people and your quaint little categories." - Captain Jack Harkness, Torchwood "We're grown ups now, and it's our turn to decide what that means." - Randall Munroe, http://xkcd.com Conquer the Universe with me! See how at http://fiat-knox.livejournal.com We are now leaving the Kingdom of Star Trek and entering normal space.