From sentto-44114-16461-1033924362-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Sun Oct 06 10:17:03 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 06 Oct 2002 10:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from n34.grp.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.66.102]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 17yF1Y-0002Ng-00 for lojban-in@lojban.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 10:17:00 -0700 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-16461-1033924362-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.197] by n34.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Oct 2002 17:12:47 -0000 X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 6 Oct 2002 17:12:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 26394 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2002 17:12:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Oct 2002 17:12:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Oct 2002 17:12:41 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA08341; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:24:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200210061724.NAA08341@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:11:55 -0400 To: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk (And Rosta) Cc: jcowan@reutershealth.com (John Cowan), lojban@yahoogroups.com (lojban) In-Reply-To: from "And Rosta" at Oct 06, 2002 04:46:34 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@yahoogroups.com; contact lojban-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:11:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [lojban] Re: prescription & description (was: RE: Re: a new kind of fundamentalism Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 1950 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list And Rosta scripsit: > All of this I'm happy to agree with, except for the final sentence, since > -- from where I stand as a British linguist -- actual disputes about > whether X is or isn't StdE tend to concerns things that are colloquial, > so it's more a stylistic issue than a stylistic one. I take it you mean "more stylistic than semantic", and I agree. It's just that Lojban has so little stylistics yet I tend to discount it in this context. -- He made the Legislature meet at one-horse John Cowan tank-towns out in the alfalfa belt, so that jcowan@reutershealth.com hardly nobody could get there and most of http://www.reutershealth.com the leaders would stay home and let him go http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to work and do things as he pleased. --Mencken, _Declaration of Independence_ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/MVfIAA/GSaulB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/