From a.rosta@xxxxx.xxxx Sat Dec 11 06:50:23 1999 X-Digest-Num: 308 Message-ID: <44114.308.1686.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:50:23 -0000 From: "And Rosta" From: John Cowan > > And Rosta wrote: > > > A recent issue of Journal of Linguistics had a positive 1 page > > review by Geoff Sampson of the Woldemar Codex. > > He sent LLG a preprint, but didn't know when it would appear. > Can you dig up the issue and give us a proper reference? > (I first read this as "page 1 review" and was rather more > pleased than the situation in fact justified!) It'll be a while before I make it into a library. The review is in fact right at the end, as the solitary Shorter Notice in the journal (which tends not to publish Shorter Notices). > > Sampson is a bit of a maverick, > > How does he compare on the maverick scale to Alexis Manaster-Ramer, > who has also given us favorable attention? The maverick scale is multidimensional so it's hard to say. Tentatively, GS scores more mavs, while on the getting-people's- backs-up scale, AMR scores more GPBUs over the last ten years with the situation reversed prior to that. They're both undeniably very clever people. The only endorsement of Loglan/Lojban (it was Loglan, actually) by a professional linguist that I have ever witnessed (at a conference) was by someone who either by virtue of their own intellect or their national intellectual culture struck me as very much not an undeniably clever person. > > but on the other hand he doesn't suffer fools > > gladly, so his endorsement is something to be pleased about. > > I was, indeed. --And.