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[Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group:]

> For Jordan and others who want to read more about the Kempton and Kay 
> experiments, the second message in the digest below has an informal 
> description by Kempton.
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9110D&L=linguist&P=R1957

Thanks for the link! The results seem to confirm what I suspected some time
ago: that the thought patterns produced by a language depends not only on
its syntactic grammar, but also the way it classifies concepts -- in
epistemological jargonology, the manner in which it divides up `semantic
space', which in the context of Lojban will be the way in which gismu and
cmavo semantics are distributed.

Thanks,
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