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Re: [jboske] upcoming gadri war (was: RE: Sapir-Whorf sucks (etc.)



On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, And Rosta wrote:

> xod:
> > It sounds like the baseline was rushed through with known defects in order
> > to get it rubber stamped. Now we must go back and deal with those issues,
> > with our hands tied by the "corpus" and several dozen contrarian
> > skeptics who have to be convinced one by one that there is any problem to
> > fix!
>
> [I leave the quote for the sheer pleasure of seeing it.]
>
> > I am hoping, by the way, to stall off the upcoming gadri war until
> > lejboselsla
>
> grr. Have to look up rafsi sla. OK. Lojfest. How come until lojfest?


Because we have our hands quite full with preparing for the history-making
meeting, online instead of in Lojbab's house, and the history-making
lejboselsla, held for the 1st time in a hotel, the particulars of which
are still yet unspecified.


> I'm waiting (not impatiently) for Nick to present a revised Kludgesome
> Solution. I don't see any alternative. There is nobody else competent
> to devise a scheme that can pass muster with both formalists and
> reactionaries. (That's also why I didn't volunteer to BF shepherd
> gadri: that has to be done by Nick.)


The alternative, of course, is my beautiful and simple solution. About
Nick's "solution" I offer a single phrase: Ptolemaic Astronomy.



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