From graywyvern@hotmail.com Mon Jul 31 14:49:43 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9739 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2000 21:49:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Jul 2000 21:49:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.237.185) by mta1 with SMTP; 31 Jul 2000 21:49:43 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:49:43 -0700 Received: from 209.176.48.39 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.176.48.39] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Technology, industrialism, the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, and linguistic divergence vs. convergence: Curtis Smith vs. Ernest Gellner Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:49:42 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Jul 2000 21:49:43.0019 (UTC) FILETIME=[3C215BB0:01BFFB39] From: "michael helsem" >From: "T. Peter Park" li'o Interesting, but such speculation has little relevance to our present discussions. My own opinion is that if we cannot agree among ourselves to recognize the sentience of cetaceans & chimps, not to mention the unfortunate situation that still exists over all-too-much of the world in regards to difference of skin pigmentation, religion, ktp ktp (a new book, "Disposable People", documents the continued existence of slavery today), what does that say about the possibility of us ever bridging even greater differences...? ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com