From a.rosta@ntlworld.com Wed Mar 27 04:21:57 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 27 Mar 2002 12:21:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 91879 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2002 12:21:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Mar 2002 12:21:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta05-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.45) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Mar 2002 12:21:56 -0000 Received: from n7p6w6 ([62.255.40.41]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020327122154.LBAZ17294.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@n7p6w6> for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:21:54 +0000 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Whorf Hypothesis in Scientific American Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:20:58 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020326214453.00aa2c80@pop.cais.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=77248971 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin > 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 The author of those papers has always struck me as a massive loony. A massive New Age loony. (Loony, not fool.) --And.