From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Aug 21 02:37:54 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 21 Aug 2004 02:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BySJh-0004Rs-EJ for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 02:37:41 -0700 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 02:37:41 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Piraha and SWH Message-ID: <20040821093740.GL3257@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040820083359.GA7469@fysh.org> <20040820190429.GE5127@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040820190947.GF5127@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <200408202125.31324.phma@phma.hn.org> <20040821091504.GA13917@fysh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040821091504.GA13917@fysh.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 8514 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 10:15:04AM +0100, Zefram wrote: > Pierre Abbat wrote: > >could be convinced to let their children take math lessons so that > >when they grow up they can tell when they're being cheated? > > This was something that occurred to me. The article specifically mentions that: 1. They do not allow discussions with women or children. 2. Their entire culture is based on not learning things from outsiders. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"