From robin@bilkent.edu.tr Thu Oct 03 16:04:01 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:04:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17xF0f-00050B-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:03:58 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C472912B79 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 02:00:34 +0300 (EEST) Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (ppp148.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.148]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2692D12B3F for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 02:00:32 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3D9CCD45.4050607@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 02:05:41 +0300 From: Robin Turner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: a new kind of fundamentalism References: <20021003111449.Q95321-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> <000e01c26b1d$8a080440$3ac90950@ftiq2awxk6> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 X-archive-position: 1887 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Lionel Vidal wrote: > > >To give you an example on a connected subject, most linguists >specialised in some languages know them perfectly in their >intimate mechanism and discuss relevently of the specific >means used to convey meanings (which is kind of what jboske is >all about), but are not users. Most of them are not even fluent >in them. > BIG problem in linguistics! robin.tr -- "We do not imprison ourselves with laws, or impoverish ourselves with money" - Iain Banks Robin Tunrer IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin