From mouse@Sparkle.Rodents-Montreal.ORG Tue Mar 16 10:26:36 2010 Received: from sparkle.rodents-montreal.org ([216.46.5.7] ident=AlHlY0SLj24zPgB8DehOFbI883YefHhx3XN8Rw28cOL) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NraXE-00080T-5I for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:26:36 -0700 Received: (from mouse@localhost) by Sparkle.Rodents-Montreal.ORG (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19026; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:26:07 -0400 (EDT) From: der Mouse Message-Id: <201003161726.NAA19026@Sparkle.Rodents-Montreal.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Erik-Conspiracy: There is no Conspiracy - and if there were I wouldn't be part of it anyway. X-Message-Flag: Microsoft: the company who gave us the botnet zombies. Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:20:04 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: In-Reply-To: References: > I doubt that the length of a word will have much of an effect on how > often people will talk about what the word denotes. Per se, no. But, as false as Sapir-Whorf is in its more dogmatic forms, having a convenient term for something does make it easier to talk about it. (Yak shaving is recent example from my own life.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B