From xod@thestonecutters.net Sun Oct 06 09:55:34 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 6 Oct 2002 16:55:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 3344 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2002 16:55:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Oct 2002 16:55:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Oct 2002 16:55:33 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17yEkK-00026J-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 09:59:12 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17yEjk-000260-00; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 09:58:36 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 06 Oct 2002 09:58:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [66.111.194.10] (helo=granite.thestonecutters.net) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17yEjf-00025n-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 09:58:32 -0700 Received: from localhost (xod@localhost) by granite.thestonecutters.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g96Gsp709464 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:54:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from xod@thestonecutters.net) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:54:51 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Why linguists might be interested in Lojban (was: RE: Re: a new kind of fundamentalism In-Reply-To: <3DA008C1.3080706@bilkent.edu.tr> Message-ID: <20021006125308.F9452-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 1949 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Invent Yourself Reply-To: xod@thestonecutters.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=110189215 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 16438 On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Robin Turner wrote: > I imagine cognitive linguists would also find it interesting from the > point of metaphor. Lojban combines the explicit metaphor-making of > lujvo (which are not metaphorical in the common sense of the word, but > are in the cogling sense) with an attempt to suppress unmarked metaphor > (which to a mainstream cognitive linguist would be quixotic but > interesting). Can you explain more about what Lojban is doing that seems quixotic to linguists? Thanks! -- Before Sept. 11 there was not the present excited talk about a strike on Iraq. There is no evidence of any connection between Iraq and that act of terrorism. Why would that event change the situation? -- Howard Zinn