Return-Path: Message-Id: <9205130000.AA03787@relay2.UU.NET> Date: Tue May 12 20:22:52 1992 Reply-To: cbmvax!uunet!otago.ac.nz!chandley Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Handley Subject: Re: Some attitudinals I would like to see X-To: LOJBAN%CUVMA.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Tue May 12 20:22:52 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Richard writes: >The experience of listening to some dire conference talks and >question-answer sessions leads me to suggest some attitudinals and >discursives that it would be useful to have words for: > > [A series of statements and attitudes] If we produced these, and conferences were then conducted in Loglan, we would probably find: a) that the good speakers would convey the same amount of information in half the time. b) some presentations would consist only of attitudinals etc, with no semantic content whatever. (This is already true, but it is more difficult to discern in English!) Chris Handley chandley@otago.ac.nz Dept of Computer Science Ph (+64) 3-479-8499 University of Otago Fax (+64) 3-479-8577 Dunedin, NZ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bet you 3 to 1 that fixing that bug will introduce three more"