From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Mar 27 13:19:55 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 27 Mar 2002 21:19:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 23524 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2002 21:19:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Mar 2002 21:19:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (216.231.54.78) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Mar 2002 21:19:54 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16qKqX-0000sw-00 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:20:41 -0800 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:20:41 -0800 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Whorf Hypothesis in Scientific American Message-ID: <20020327212041.GF26143@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020326214453.00aa2c80@pop.cais.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=66827819 X-Yahoo-Profile: robinleepowell On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:20:58PM -0000, And Rosta wrote: > > 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.) By 'loony' you mean 'clinically insane'? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/