From lojbab@lojban.org Tue Mar 26 18:51:56 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 27 Mar 2002 02:51:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 14355 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2002 02:51:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Mar 2002 02:51:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-3.cais.net) (205.252.14.73) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Mar 2002 02:51:55 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (21.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.21]) by stmpy-3.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g2R2pse00342 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:51:54 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020326214453.00aa2c80@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:49:10 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Whorf Hypothesis in Scientific American Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1120595 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab Thanks to James Jennings of the Loglanists List for referencing this article, which describes several recent confirmatory experiments for Whorf effects, one of which apparently involving an artificial language (other than Lojban), so we may start to be able to find linguists who will be interested in trying to work with Lojban. http://www.scientificamerican.com/explorations/2002/032502language/ The SA article in turn points to http://www.sunflower.com/~dewatson/alford.htm which has an extensive set of papers that are pro-Whorfian hypothesis. I haven't had time to read these though. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org