----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: A Bit of a Flame
> Hi!
> > structure-worshiping linguists
>
> No. Structure-loving, yes,
as opposed to (completely) free word order, yes? :)
> >are so brainwashed.
> Maybe, how can I decide this?
if we were brainwashed, wouldn't we be programmed to deny being programmed
or brainwashed?
> The definition should be as broad as possible and as narrow as
> necessary
and how do *you* handle the seeming contradiction?
> > Accept the truth.
I Am your God.
> > especially when you consider the possibility of non-
> > human language in the universe and even in the animal kingdom of our
> > own little planet.
>
> Correct.
absolutely...just the other day, a woodchuck was telling me the real answer
to the old "how much wood" riddle...
> > are freaking out right now
CHOCOLATE!!!!!!
> > -- probably arguing that anything non-human *can't* be language.
pft. anything human can't be language.