From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 29 0:44:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from vienna9.his.com (vienna9.his.com [216.200.68.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA2437B409; Wed, 29 May 2002 00:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [137.120.142.179] (root@[127.0.0.1]) by vienna9.his.com (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g4RBQOF23559; Mon, 27 May 2002 07:26:24 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020527104558.B43610@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3CF17486.F06F3E6A@mindspring.com> <20020527104558.B43610@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Outlook will expire in 3 days. Please contact Microsoft about purchasing a new license. Remember: software piracy is a felony! Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 13:14:14 +0200 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Terry Lambert From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Cc: pgreen , Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 10:45 AM +0930 2002/05/27, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Imagine you're driving down a crowded freeway and a car in front of > you suddenly stops. You have to avoid it. How do you do it? "Well, > if I veer to the left, I may hit the gravel on the side of the road, > if I veer to the right, I may hit the central reservation, but there's > not enough space between the lanes for me to get through, so maybe the > gravel's the least risk"? Of course not. Putting thoughts into > language is too slow for your own thoughts. I would argue that this issue is handled largely by reflex, with relatively little conscious thought. What conscious thought has gone into this process happened before the situation began, so your reflex is going to be guided by your memory of the overall situation immediately before the unexpected occurrence. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message