> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark A Mandel [mailto:mam at theworld.com] > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 11:55 AM > To: Joshua Kronengold > Cc: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: Subjectivity vs. Objectivity (was: bois...) > > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Joshua Kronengold wrote: > > #By contrast, -all- of us use the kind of influence Steve is > describing #with our language -- and about everything else we > are participatory #in creating; simply by what words we chose > to create, learn, adapt, use, and #ignore. #<clashes silver > bracelets together, reminiscent of a certain #Janet Kagan > novel that everyone should read> > > On both paragraphs, agreed! <snapping forearm down, which > would cause my bracelets to jangle if I had them> And the books we read influences are language. It's now common to hear in my family "I've been asking for nothing less for the last hour!" :) Rachel