From a.rosta@ntlworld.com Sun Apr 07 07:53:55 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 7 Apr 2002 14:53:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 12596 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2002 14:53:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Apr 2002 14:53:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta02-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.42) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Apr 2002 14:53:55 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer ([62.253.89.109]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020407145353.NVWY286.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@oemcomputer> for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 15:53:53 +0100 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Whorf Hypothesis in Scientific American Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 15:54:12 +0100 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: <20020327212041.GF26143@digitalkingdom.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=77248971 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin > From: Robin Lee Powell [mailto:rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org] > > 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'? No. I mean 'someone with insupportably strange ideas', which is what 'loony' generally means in British English, in contrast to 'care in the community', which means (literally or metaphorically) 'clinically insane' (because Margaret Thatcher's government closed the psychiatric hospitals so that the inhabitants could enjoy the life of the mendicant homeless, and orwellianly called this budgetary efficiency 'care in the community'). --And.