From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMB.BITNET!LOJBAN Tue Jun 30 18:56:27 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Tue, 30 Jun 92 18:56 EDT Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA15466; Tue, 30 Jun 92 18:43:09 EDT Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA23948; Tue, 30 Jun 92 18:20:12 -0400 Message-Id: <9206302220.AA23948@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6563; Tue, 30 Jun 92 18:19:46 EDT Received: by PUCC (Mailer R2.08 ptf033) id 0133; Tue, 30 Jun 92 18:18:45 EDT Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1992 09:58:20 GMT+1200 Reply-To: cbmvax!uunet!otago.ac.nz!chandley Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Handley Subject: Re: Watching TV X-To: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO Hi Total aside from Lojban. Mark writes: >Actually, I still don't think we really *must* have the causal link. The >English doesn't have it, nor does it have to be seen as implied. "So long >as you haven't started sitting up straight (during the time before you >start doing so), you are forbidden from watching TV." Doesn't imply that >you'll be permitted to watch afterwards, not necessarily. And just as >well, I might find some other reason to forbid you by then. > It seems that parents are just as authoritarian in Lojbania as they are in many other parts of the world, and that forbidding telly watching is regarded as a punishment. Most of what I have seen on the idiot box convinces me we have got it wrong, to me the ultimate horror would be to be condemned to watch telly for n hours per day, particularly if it was one of the continuous soap channels. Here in New Zealand, we had a National Switch Off week to coincide with National Library week. It was great, ratings dropped quite significantly and people sat around talking and reading books (those that could still read that is, large quantities of the population have forgotten how and were standing in libraries vainly trying to open books along the spine) (yes I dio jest (%} Have fun, and don't watch too much telly - write Lojban instead. 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"