From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Mar 08 12:34:49 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 8 Mar 2001 20:34:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 94784 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2001 20:34:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 8 Mar 2001 20:34:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 8 Mar 2001 21:35:52 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/0.0.0) with ESMTP id PAA18342; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:37:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3AA7ED64.7030309@reutershealth.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 15:36:52 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: michael helsem Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [humanmarkup] Introducing the Logical Language Group References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan michael helsem wrote: > why not--first of all, how do we say "human markup" in lojban? > i confess i'm not familiar with the jargon that's taken from... > then, what's "XML"? A method of marking up text or data to provide structure and additional information about it. > so why reify any particular notation, even lojban's, when there's > no useful consensus? The fact that there is no way to do everything is not a justification for doing nothing. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein