RE: Journal of Linguistics review

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

> From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
> 
> And Rosta wrote:
> 
> > A recent issue of Journal of Linguistics had a positive 1 page
> > review by Geoff Sampson of the Woldemar Codex.
> 
> He sent LLG a preprint, but didn't know when it would appear.
> Can you dig up the issue and give us a proper reference?
> (I first read this as "page 1 review" and was rather more
> pleased than the situation in fact justified!)

It'll be a while before I make it into a library. The review
is in fact right at the end, as the solitary Shorter Notice
in the journal (which tends not to publish Shorter Notices).
 
> > Sampson is a bit of a maverick,
> 
> How does he compare on the maverick scale to Alexis Manaster-Ramer,
> who has also given us favorable attention?

The maverick scale is multidimensional so it's hard to say. 
Tentatively, GS scores more mavs, while on the getting-people's-
backs-up scale, AMR scores more GPBUs over the last ten years
with the situation reversed prior to that.

They're both undeniably very clever people. 

The only endorsement of Loglan/Lojban (it was Loglan, actually) 
by a professional linguist that I have ever witnessed (at a
conference) was by someone who either by virtue of their own 
intellect or their national intellectual culture struck me as 
very much not an undeniably clever person.

> > but on the other hand he doesn't suffer fools
> > gladly, so his endorsement is something to be pleased about.
> 
> I was, indeed.

--And.