Re: Linguistics journals LONGISH

[Thanatos <thanatos@DIMENSIONAL.COM>]

"Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU> wrote:
> (choljaH: Klingon for
>ponytail holder, since he likes to wear ponytails and it's a far more
>convenient term than "ponytail holder."  It's now the  normal term for
the
>item in my household),

Hmm, they're known as "hair dammits" in my house. :)  But then, we also
call coupons "puke-ons," the DSS mini-dish receiver "the alien box,"
"shwashing" refers to using the clothes or dish washers (known as the
dee-shwasher), macaroni "marconi," burgers "boogers," and use other
assorted non-Standard English phrases, so much so that I have to
consciously untranslate when I used them in public in some cases.
Linguists, make of this what you will. :)

I'd assume that those who've had experience in programming languages
have an easier time initially with argument places and scope in lojban.
As far as learning programming languages, after the first two you learn,
it's mostly a matter of learning the subtleties of the subsequent
languages.  However, there most certainly is a shared "deep structure"
of programming languages: they're all running on the same physical
CPU+Memory architecture.  Not to start that argument about natural
languages, however.

Hehe, why am I suddenly envisioning a lojban-mode for emacs?

A lojban "doctor?" :)
do cusku lu ko to'e bacru li'u mu'i ma

Ah, for elidible scope delimiters in lisp.
--
Erik W. Cornilsen
"Who's going to name his next pet Emergency Rations."