From lojbab@lojban.org Sat May 20 12:15:10 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30091 invoked from network); 20 May 2000 19:15:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 20 May 2000 19:15:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy.cais.net) (205.252.14.63) by mta2 with SMTP; 20 May 2000 19:15:09 -0000 Received: from bob (112.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.112]) by stmpy.cais.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12415 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 15:13:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000520151152.00af9a30@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 15:16:47 -0400 To: "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] Help with fiction In-Reply-To: <20000519164233.F4780@hackandroll.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 04:42 PM 05/19/2000 -0300, LYlun.martins. wrote: >A secret society calls themselves "Information Cabal". They >believe basically in "information wants to be free" and for >most of this century they collect and redistribute information, >while they cultivate computers, the hacker culture and the >Internet. I think datni covers this. Information need not be true, hence I think se djuno is not necessarily covering all information. sidbo may also be involved somewhere in here. >And how to express "cabal"? I can't find something that >abstractly refers to a group in this meaning - perhaps if there >was such a bridi, I could use "secret society" (secret group). >But {girzu} sounds different to me... You want "bende", not girzu. >{mipri girzu}? {sivni girzu}? You have presented reasons why they are not necessarily a tradition "cabal". With Lojban, they have decide just what they are trying to say. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org