From sentto-44114-1941-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Sun Feb 06 22:28:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 17841 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2000 22:28:42 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 6 Feb 2000 22:28:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 8268 invoked by uid 40001); 6 Feb 2000 22:30:47 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 8260 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2000 22:30:47 -0000 Received: from ch.egroups.com (208.48.218.21) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 6 Feb 2000 22:30:47 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-1941-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.38] by ch.egroups.com with NNFMP; 06 Feb 2000 22:30:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 21236 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2000 22:30:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.10.38 with QMQP; 6 Feb 2000 22:30:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d01.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.33) by mta1.onelist.com with SMTP; 6 Feb 2000 22:30:42 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v25.3.) id h.48.145a43b (4364) for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 17:30:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <48.145a43b.25cf500c@aol.com> To: lojban@onelist.com X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows sub 30 MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@onelist.com; contact lojban-owner@onelist.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@onelist.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 17:30:36 EST From: Pycyn@aol.com Subject: Re: [lojban] On the 2/3 flood Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pycyn@aol.com SAE = Standard Average European, the metaphysico-grammatical commonality of Romance, Slavic and Germanic languages which marked the built in thought pattern of westerners, according to Whorf. It is not clear just what all is included but certain the noun-adjective-verb distinction grammatically that pointed (or from) the thing-property-action metaphysics (independent things have dependent properties and participate in more dependednt actions -- all of which are eventually things again). Probably also obligatory tense and time as external and linear (or partially ordered), gender and sex differentiation even in inanimates, and whatever else differeed markedly from Hopi (verbs throughout, circular time, process metaphysics, ...) pc --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- Want To Be Showered With Kisses? Visit eGroups Valentine Gift Guide Click Here ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com