Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 17:49:49 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712122249.RAA21599@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral Subject: Re: debating style and attitudinals X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 696 X-From-Space-Date: Fri Dec 12 17:49:50 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU 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