Re: debating style and attitudinals

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Robin Turner wrote:

> As usual I can't follow the finer points of some of these strings, but the
> debating style is reminiscent of MIT in the sixties (not that I was around
> then, but I enjoyed reading a few of the bloodier exchanges in the
> "linguistics wars"). Is this just the way Lojbanists speak English, or are
> you really at each other's throats?

As And says, it's "affectionate rudeness".  We do but jest, poison in
jest, no offence in the world.

> [F]or example, if And, in one of his
> characteristically vitriolic postings [...]

I see no vitriol here.

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban