Re: linguistics journals

[Colin Fine <colin@KINDNESS.DEMON.CO.UK>]

vecu'u le notci po'u <882447831.154597.0@listserv.cuny.edu> la Robin
Turner <robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR> cu cusku di'e
>la djef. cusku di'e
>
>>>I do not think that there is anything that Lojban, or ANY language,
>>>natural or constructed, can do to improve my thinking. I do not think in
>>>Lojban, or English, or any other language; I just THINK. You usually have
>>>to CONSTRUCT a language in which to express your ALREADY EXISTING
>>>thoughts, and I consider that thought and language are separate things.
>>
>
>This is an extremely controversial philosophical point, and one which I
>think has surfaced before on this list, so I won't go into the arguments.
>My advice to Geoff and Colin is to try "just thinking";  the most you're
>likely to be able to come up with is a few pictures.  If you can do even
>this without any words coming into your head, you're well on the way to a
>mystical experience.  As for whether language can improve your thinking, I
>think any second language will improve your thinking to an extent, and a
>language which is designed to be as logical as possible ought to do this to
>a greater extent.  There is in fact nothing particularly remarkable about
>this; if I put a particularly knotty problem into symbolic logic, all I am
>doing is using a different language to help me think better.

ki'a

.i uesai

.i mi nu'o se gunma lei casnu be di'u

mi'e kolin

>
>co'o mi'e robin.
>
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>Robin Turner
>
>Bilkent Universitesi,
>IDMYO,
>Ankara,
>Turkey.
>
><http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8309>

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