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[lojban-beginners] Re: A bystander question concerning the recent CFG challenge
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A bystander question concerning the recent CFG challenge
- From: Fiat Knox <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:22:11 +0000 (GMT)
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--- On Wed, 29/10/08, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:
> From: Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>
> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A bystander question concerning the recent CFG challenge
> To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
> Date: Wednesday, 29 October, 2008, 9:03 PM
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:19:22PM +0100, tijlan wrote:
> > My knowledge of computer science and its academy is
> pretty limited, so
> > my question might sound silly. Why is it that Lojban
> (it seems) has
> > little involvement from such institutions as MIT?
> In short, because constructed languages are considered frivolous by the > academic establishment, and therefore unworthy of study.
Or, as I suspect, lojban is far beyond their ability to grasp. :)
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