From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Fri Sep 3 02:17:21 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Fri, 3 Sep 1993 12:19:34 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Fri, 3 Sep 1993 12:19:25 -0400 Message-Id: <199309031619.AA06390@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9205; Fri, 03 Sep 93 12:17:42 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 4776; Fri, 03 Sep 93 12:19:00 EDT Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1993 09:17:21 -0700 Reply-To: jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU Subject: Re: Attitudinal paper, part 3 of 3 X-To: lojban@cuvmb.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 93 14:16:34 EDT." Status: RO X-Status: John Cowan writes: > ...Psychologists have devised elaborate tests for measuring > attitudes and personality; this may be the easiest area in which to > detect any systematic cultural effect of the type sought to confirm > Sapir-Whorf, simply because we already have tools in existence to test it. > Because Lojban is unique among languages in having such extensive and > expressive indicators, it is likely that a Sapir-Whorf effect will occur > and will be recognized. It's ironic that, intending to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, JCB made Lojban most different from natural languages in its "logical" aspect, but after evolution and extension of JCB's scheme, the emotional aspect of the language may be most suited to the Sapir-Whorf test. -- jimc