From gregory.dyke@epfl.ch Thu Sep 18 10:33:11 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:33:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imap.epfl.ch ([128.178.50.10] ident=mailsrv) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1A02eK-00040P-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:33:00 -0700 Received: from imap.epfl.ch (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap.epfl.ch (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 3 (built Mar 23 2001)) with ESMTP id <0HLF00MEN7EXL2@imap.epfl.ch> for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:32:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [62.202.159.235] by imap.epfl.ch (mshttpd); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:32:57 +0200 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:32:57 +0200 From: GREGORY DYKE Subject: [lojban] Re: That\'s mostly for spanish readers To: lojban-list@lojban.org Message-id: <116ec17747.17747116ec@imap.epfl.ch> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: iPlanet Webmail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en X-archive-position: 6219 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: gregory.dyke@epfl.ch Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:49:42AM -0400, xahlee.org wrote: > > stories as such are academic babbling, like that a mint with a > blowjob will feel good. Appealing to the semi-intelligent masses > as wisdom and potential truth, but in fact harmful as a piece of crap. Would you care to explicate to a member of the semi-intelligent masses such as myself, firstly why this is untrue - and why I *was* able to read it with relative ease - secondly why considering this as a hypothesis is harmful... And also - if the shape of words is one of the ways we recognize them - how come we can still recognize the words when their shape gets mixed up. mi'e greg mu'o