Re: Some attitudinals I would like to see

[Chris Handley <cbmvax!uunet!GANDALF.OTAGO.AC.NZ!CHandley>]

Richard writes:

>The experience of listening to some dire conference talks and
>question-answer sessions leads me to suggest some attitudinals and
>discursives that it would be useful to have words for:
>
> [A series of statements and attitudes]

If we produced these, and conferences were then conducted in Loglan, we
would probably find:

a) that the good speakers would convey the same amount of information in
half the time.

b) some presentations would consist only of attitudinals etc, with no
semantic content whatever. (This is already true, but it is more difficult
to discern in English!)

Chris Handley                                     chandley@otago.ac.nz
Dept of Computer Science                       Ph     (+64) 3-479-8499
University of Otago                           Fax     (+64) 3-479-8577
Dunedin, NZ

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