From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Oct 03 18:41:37 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 4 Oct 2002 01:41:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 53343 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2002 01:41:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Oct 2002 01:41:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Oct 2002 01:41:37 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17xHWP-0005sZ-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:44:53 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17xHUt-0005s5-00; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:43:19 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [65.246.141.151] (helo=mail2.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17xHU8-0005rb-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:42:32 -0700 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA15232; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:49:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200210040149.VAA15232@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:37:32 +4400 Subject: [lojban] Re: a new kind of fundamentalism To: jkominek@miranda.org Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:37:32 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20021003164329.Z26784@miranda.org> from "Jay F Kominek" at Oct 03, 2002 04:43:29 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 1893 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: John Cowan Reply-To: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Jay F Kominek scripsit: > And that usage of 'not' went out of style while I was still a > teenager. :) Though I suppose it could've made its way back in. Archie Goodwin (from the Nero Wolfe mysteries) used it back in the forties, and it appears in Ellis Parker Butler's classic "Pigs is Pigs", which must be about 1898 or so. And that is not the oldest usage (though I forget what is). -- You are a child of the universe no less John Cowan than the trees and all other acyclic http://www.reutershealth.com graphs; you have a right to be here. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --DeXiderata by Sean McGrath jcowan@reutershealth.com