Re: SUO: Universal Time, other universals, and cultural contextof SUO.

["John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>]

Pat,

I agree you have correctly described what linguists who have
been influenced by Chomsky have been trying to do.  I also admit
that computational linguists do have to spend an enormous amount
of effort in trying to deal with the nitty gritty details, no matter
what school of linguistics they subscribe to.

> You miss the point. Of course things can be said in English. But
> linguistics is concerned with the *structure* of English (or NL
> generally), and many things that can be said IN English need a lot of
> saying, and are not directly revealed in syntactic structure. And
> those tend to be ignored, or worse, warped, by a linguistic approach
> to understanding meaning.

However, I have been trying to do things right.  And Nicola correctly
observes that I am therefore outside the mainstream.  What I am
trying to do is to divert the stream in the direction of CSP, ANW,
LW, and their partisans.  I admit that it is an uphill battle.

John