From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 26 17:12:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from m-net.arbornet.org (m-net.arbornet.org [209.142.209.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D83D37B401 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 17:12:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (polytarp@localhost) by m-net.arbornet.org (8.11.1/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g4R03dJ51780; Sun, 26 May 2002 20:03:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from polytarp@m-net.arbornet.org) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 20:03:39 -0400 (EDT) From: pgreen To: Terry Lambert Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss In-Reply-To: <3CF17486.F06F3E6A@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 26 May 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > pgreen wrote: > > On Sun, 26 May 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > pgreen wrote: > > > > On Sun, 26 May 2002, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > > Totally OT for FreeBSD, but people who were reading the thread on > > > > > survival of small languages may be interested in this article: > > > > > http://www.spectator.co.uk/bookreview.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-05-25&id=997 > > > > > > > > Huh? > > > > > > Your ability to think about certain concepts is constrained by the > > > language(s) in which you are able to think. > > > > No, it isn't. > > Provide a counter example. > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > Well, you have to think counter-unpartisanly. For example, using Ruminov's Ruminition, you can think of any idea, regardless of linguistical barriers. For example, let's say an Episcipitalian wishes to know how to know. By using Ruminov's Ruminition, he is able to: A) Think, purely using emotions, a language inate in any human, of the children. B) This, of course, leads to only one conclusion: 1) Anything can be known, in the context of one's reality. Thus, we see how anything can be thunk, regardeless of any so-called language. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message