From jcowan@reutershealth.com Sun Oct 06 10:12:41 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 6 Oct 2002 17:12:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 26394 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2002 17:12:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Oct 2002 17:12:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Oct 2002 17:12:41 -0000 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 NAA08341; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:24:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200210061724.NAA08341@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:11:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] prescription & description (was: RE: Re: a new kind of fundamentalism To: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk (And Rosta) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:11:55 -0400 (EDT) Cc: jcowan@reutershealth.com (John Cowan), lojban@yahoogroups.com (lojban) In-Reply-To: from "And Rosta" at Oct 06, 2002 04:46:34 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan And Rosta scripsit: > All of this I'm happy to agree with, except for the final sentence, since > -- from where I stand as a British linguist -- actual disputes about > whether X is or isn't StdE tend to concerns things that are colloquial, > so it's more a stylistic issue than a stylistic one. I take it you mean "more stylistic than semantic", and I agree. It's just that Lojban has so little stylistics yet I tend to discount it in this context. -- He made the Legislature meet at one-horse John Cowan tank-towns out in the alfalfa belt, so that jcowan@reutershealth.com hardly nobody could get there and most of http://www.reutershealth.com the leaders would stay home and let him go http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to work and do things as he pleased. --Mencken, _Declaration of Independence_