http://www.nobrowcartoons.com/gallery/big_midres/201%20speed%20of%20light%20in%20vacuum.jpg
___
http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
>Which shows how diametrically different Galactic lawyers are to US
lawyers, who are frequently hired to find some way of making the
contract say the exact opposite of what it is meant to say because
one of the signatories wants to do what he wants rather than what he agreed to.
YEP!
>"In o
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Charlie Bell wrote:
>
> On 28/06/2009, at 1:25 PM, dsummersmi...@comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Um... a ship? Do you mean the Marines patrol boat a couple of years
>>> ago? Wasn't a ship.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry Charlie. You have to remember that, when I was I kid I was on many
That being said, Anglic is still probably more flexible by several degrees.
-- Matt
Anglic is very flexible. And symmetric.
No galactic alphabet has characters that can be reversed or flipped.
Dyslexia is impossible.
But in Anglic, a d flipped once becomes a b. Flipped again, it's a p.
And
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Dave Land wrote:
> Folks,
>
> A guy on a Canon 10D camera mailing list has been documenting his progress
> to convert a (fairly cheap, from the look of things) bike to an electric
> bike by replacing the front wheel with one that has a HUGE hub containing a
> motor.
At 12:21 PM Monday 6/29/2009, Matt Grimaldi wrote:
see below...
- Original Message
From: Alberto Monteiro
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 5:32:29 AM
Subject: Re: Brin: Language
SPOILER ALERT
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Charlie Bell wrote:
>
see below...
- Original Message
From: Alberto Monteiro
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 5:32:29 AM
Subject: Re: Brin: Language
SPOILER ALERT
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Charlie Bell wrote:
>
> I do recall something about language in the Uplif
--- On Mon, 6/29/09, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
But this is not a metaphor!!! This is a _simile_.
Heh.
A metaphor is: "A cat is a dog with more attitude and a penchant for mice".
A fully logical language would reject the previus sentence as false,
because a cat is not a dog - GAME OVER.
Now th
Carolyn L Burke wrote:
>
> I think a language that fully prevents metaphoric content would need
> to meet two conditions: it would be fully definitional, and to do
> that, you'd need a rather interesting, if not impossible, complete
> ontology of the universe. In other words, you'd need to be a
SPOILER ALERT
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Charlie Bell wrote:
>
> I do recall something about language in the Uplift books, but the
> much more blatant example is Marain in the Culture books - again
> designed to eliminate confuzzlement.
>
A REALLY BIG ONE!!!
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
xponentrob wrote:
>
> Agreed. Iranians seem to have had no stomach for a general strike.
> I think they would like to, but the reality on the ground is not
> conducive to an action that would entail incredible sacrifice and
> an obvious hardship on all.
> (I'm guessing it generally works this way
Unlurking for a second to top post as this discussion converges on a few of my
interests.
>> > He touched on the concept in some of the Uplift Novels, where galactic
>> > languages have generally been constructed in a way that eliminates
>> > metaphore.
> > I don't recall that.. and it would have
On 29/06/2009, at 10:58 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM, KZK wrote:
I'd like to hear Dr. Brin's thoughts on this:
http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html
He touched on the concept in some of the Uplift Novels, where galactic
languages have gen
13 matches
Mail list logo
