Re: [Ltru] Re: extlang

On 30 Aug 2007, at 18:32, scríobh Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com:

> For the record, I suspect John used this term -- in quotes  
> indicating that this wasn't formal language -- because I had just  
> used this term in an offline e-mail to him trying to clarify the  
> straw poll question.

Thanks, Karen.

> I certainly meant nothing by it -- I was making sure that we were  
> talking about the languages encapsulated by the macrolanguage, not  
> the macrolanguage itself as was implied by the text. If this term  
> has offended you, I'm sorry for my part in it.

For my part, I'm sorry if I seem to sometimes get in with a criticism  
too early (but, in this case, I felt we had already waited way too  
long - days - for the list owners to deprecate that expression).

> I'm quite sure John did not use this in the spirit you are suggesting.

If he abides by what he says below, that will be good.

On 30 Aug 2007, at 19:02, John Cowan:
> ...
>
> That said, the term is indeed a poor one, and I do acknowledge the
> unconscious influence of Karen's email to me.  "Encompassed languages"
> is what I meant and should have said.

On 30 Aug 2007, at 18:32, scríobh Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com:
>
> If m*crolanguage is an offensive term, perhaps macrolanguage is as  
> well?

This episode most certainly casts some doubt on that term, if its use  
can so easily generate a concept we do not want to planted in the  
mind of an innocent professional (such as yourself).
mg

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