Message-ID: <3491BAA7.422D@locke.ccil.org> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 17:28:55 -0500 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: debating style and attitudinals References: <199712122129.QAA18157@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 659 X-From-Space-Date: Fri Dec 12 17:28:55 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - Robin Turner wrote: > As usual I can't follow the finer points of some of these strings, but the > debating style is reminiscent of MIT in the sixties (not that I was around > then, but I enjoyed reading a few of the bloodier exchanges in the > "linguistics wars"). Is this just the way Lojbanists speak English, or are > you really at each other's throats? As And says, it's "affectionate rudeness". We do but jest, poison in jest, no offence in the world. > [F]or example, if And, in one of his > characteristically vitriolic postings [...] I see no vitriol here. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban