From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Mar 27 06:53:39 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 27 Mar 2002 14:53:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 76491 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2002 14:53:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m12.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Mar 2002 14:53:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Mar 2002 14:53:37 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA08365; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:53:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200203271453.JAA08365@mail.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:52:05 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Whorf Hypothesis in Scientific American To: a.rosta@ntlworld.com (And Rosta) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:52:05 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: from "And Rosta" at Mar 27, 2002 12:20:58 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan And Rosta scripsit: > The author of those papers has always struck me as a massive loony. > A massive New Age loony. (Loony, not fool.) >From the Jargon File: fool n. As used by hackers, specifically describes a person who habitually reasons from obviously or demonstrably incorrect premises and cannot be persuaded by evidence to do otherwise; it is not generally used in its other senses, i.e., to describe a person with a native incapacity to reason correctly, or a clown. Indeed, in hackish experience many fools are capable of reasoning all too effectively in executing their errors. -- John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_