Re: genes and language (Homer, Richard Dawkins)

From: Franz Gnaedinger (frgn_at_bluemail.ch)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: 23 Dec 2004 02:44:44 -0800

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> Gould's big book is a mess, printed under the deadline of fatal
illness.
> It was not edited -- paragraphs are repeated verbatim -- and it's
clear
> from the reviews that it will not persuade any evolutionist who did
not
> already subscribe to their position.

I'd be happy if we had such "mess" left from other great scientists.
>>From present and past periods of time. And besides: I can edit such
a "mess" while reading it. Goethe called reading a highly demanding
art. An art in which I am well versed, I may say. For those less
versed I distill the most important ideas, as for example in the
case of Gould's great legacy.

> I take it it will be many months before we actually get to something
> having to do with language.
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net

I take it Peter T. Daniels, gruff and grumpy king of sci.lang,
is finally interested in a topic of mine! He tries to conceal
his interest behind his royal grunts, but he can't fool me:
he is finally interested in a topic of mine! I savour that,
of course. In earnest: we shall soon come to language, but
I got a fever, as I told you before, and I hope to be well
again on Christmas. Just now I am preparing the next messages
at home. Part 2 of my series will be about Homer's gods and
the selfish genes according to Richard Dawkins, and with part 3
we shall come to the topic of language. You will be surprised,
I can tell you, but please allow me to take some time. I hope
to publish part 2 on next Monday, and part 3 in the middle of
next week, between Christmas and New Year. Is that fine with
you? Yes? No royal grunt any more? Really?

Much relieved, and wishing everybody a merry Christmas

Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch

PS. Readers in German who can't wait may look up my web page
www.seshat.ch/home/diplom.htm, where I bespeak the installation
Prayers (www.seshat.ch/home/diplom2.JPG) by the Swiss-Tibetan
Muya ..., diplomand of the art school at Lucerne. That article
of mine includes many of my ideas I shall publish in English
and further develop here in this thread.

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