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Date:         Thu, 8 Feb 1996 09:50:03 -0800
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From: Jim Carter <jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: tech: logic matters
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
In-Reply-To:  Your message of "Thu, 08 Feb 96 07:00:40 EST." 
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> pc and Carter go back a long way with the mutual disrespect, which is I
> believe only (humorously ad hominem).

Correct (associativity parens added by jimc).

> It was pc who dubbed carters Loglan efforts as "Nalgol" because he "got
> Loglan all backwards".  Since Carter thereafter used the label Nalgol himself,
> I have alwasy presumed that no offense was taken.

Correct.  We do seem to have a different idea of what a "logical language" is:
"how logicians talk" vs. "designed per consistent standards such that you know
what they are and can work with them".  Recent discussion reveals that the
Emperor's clothes are getting tattered, and new ones might be in order.

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