From jcowan@reutershealth.com Sat Oct 05 16:09:05 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 5 Oct 2002 23:09:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 67832 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2002 23:09:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Oct 2002 23:09:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Oct 2002 23:09:05 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17xy6A-000163-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 16:12:38 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17xy5U-00014Q-00; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 16:11:56 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 05 Oct 2002 16:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [65.246.141.151] (helo=mail2.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17xy5R-00013w-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 16:11:53 -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 TAA03790; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 19:19:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200210052319.TAA03790@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 5 Oct 2002 19:07:06 -0400 Subject: [lojban] Re: Why linguists might be interested in Lojban (was: RE: Re: a new kind of fundamentalism To: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 19:07:06 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: from "And Rosta" at Oct 05, 2002 05:32:39 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 1940 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 And Rosta scripsit: > 2. Naturalist Lojban might in its own right be of some intrinsic > interest to linguistics, but more as a curiosity than as anything > that can advance the central research goals of linguistics. Well, the central research goals of Chomsky-style linguistics, anyway. Sociolinguists and functional linguists certainly might be interested. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." --Isaac Newton