From pycyn@aol.com Fri Jun 07 01:30:07 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 7 Jun 2002 08:30:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 97949 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2002 08:30:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Jun 2002 08:30:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m02.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.5) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Jun 2002 08:30:06 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v32.5.) id r.2b.283d5e24 (2615) for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 04:30:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <2b.283d5e24.2a31c90a@aol.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 04:30:02 EDT Subject: RE: Sapir-Whorf To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_2b.283d5e24.2a31c90a_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10509 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_2b.283d5e24.2a31c90a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/6/2002 6:07:56 PM Central Daylight Time, endorphinburst@yahoo.com writes: > To those who have learned Lojban, have you found that thinking in it is > different than thinking in English? Does Lojban open possibilities not > found in English or close some ways of thinking that are possible in > English? From your experience, what can you say about the Sapir/Worf > hypothesis? A search of the Lojban archives on Yahoo and elsewhere ought to turn up several discussions of this. Hopefully more will be added here. Note that most people will report effects different from what Sapir and Whorf (insurance investigator, not Klingon) were talking about (different range of metaphysical possibilities), but these other shifts are interesting, too. (great comnomen!) --part1_2b.283d5e24.2a31c90a_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In a message dated 6/6/2002 6:07:56 PM Central Daylight Time, endorphinburst@yahoo.com writes:


To those who have learned Lojban, have you found that thinking in it is different than thinking in English? Does Lojban open possibilities not found in English or close some ways of thinking that are possible in English? From your experience, what can you say about the Sapir/Worf hypothesis?


A search of the Lojban archives on Yahoo and elsewhere ought to turn up several discussions of this.  Hopefully more will be added here.
Note that most people will report effects different from what Sapir and Whorf (insurance investigator, not Klingon) were talking about (different range of metaphysical possibilities), but these other shifts are interesting, too.
(great comnomen!) --part1_2b.283d5e24.2a31c90a_boundary--