Re: logic vocabulary

On Friday, December 24, 2004, at 06:41 , # 1 wrote:
[snip]
> I'm not sexist! So much that I never thought that someone could think that
> oppose Stative and Dynamic the same way that Feminine and Masculine could
> have been taken like a personnal attack.
Du calme! du calme!

No one is taking anything as as a personal attack. You said in first mail:
  "It is not discrimination or something it is only for the opposition".

I do believe you - and so, I assume, did sally as she talked about
"pulling your leg" and Remi put a smiley after "prehistomacho!"

What we were trying to point out was that whether you intended it or not -
and clearly you did not intend it - the way you proposed to use 'stative'
and 'active' would appear to be sexist. We were simply trying to help you
avoid the discrimination that you clearly wanted to avoid.

[snip]
> I know your intentions are all for the better
Yes, indeed they are.

On Thursday, December 23, 2004, at 11:47 , # 1 wrote:
> In such language, each word should be deductable of others and I don't
> see a
> way to make it (but it merits attention... if someone can do this it would
> be formidable!)
>
> I don't want THE logic, I want A logic
>
> I only want to link words with similar meanings. It is sure that the link
> between two words will not the be the same between two others.
I do not think any of us thought you wanted THE logic. But you are right
when you say "if someone can do this it would
be formidable!"  People have been trying to do this since the 17th century
at least- starting with George Dalgarno's "Ars Signorum" of 1661 and
continuing at least till Fuishiki Okamoto's Babm of 1962. There have
almost certainly been more recent attempts.

People have been trying to do this for nearly three and half centuries -
so do not be disheartened if you don't get it right first time.

Enjoy the holiday season and return to this formidable task with, as we
say in English, "batteries recharged"  :)

Ray
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