From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Sun Oct 06 08:46:06 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 6 Oct 2002 15:46:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 39183 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2002 15:46:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Oct 2002 15:46:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Oct 2002 15:46:05 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17yDf6-0001In-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 08:49:44 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17yDeY-0001IE-00; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 08:49:10 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 06 Oct 2002 08:49:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbox-11.st1.spray.net ([212.78.202.111]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17yDeR-0001HL-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 08:49:03 -0700 Received: from oemcomputer (host213-121-70-140.surfport24.v21.co.uk [213.121.70.140]) by mailbox-11.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFA4D1EBDF; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:44:52 +0200 (MEST) To: "John Cowan" Cc: Subject: [lojban] Re: Why linguists might be interested in Lojban (was: RE: Re: a new kind of fundamentalism Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 16:46:32 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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: <200210052319.TAA03790@mail2.reutershealth.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-archive-position: 1946 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: "And Rosta" Reply-To: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122260811 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin John: > 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. I said they might be interested -- but how would the study of Lojban advance the central research goals of sociolinguistics and functional linguistics? --And.