From pycyn@aol.com Fri Jun 16 13:45:11 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29903 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2000 20:45:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 16 Jun 2000 20:45:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d06.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.38) by mta1 with SMTP; 16 Jun 2000 20:45:07 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.10.) id a.7b.586e629 (4554) for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:45:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <7b.586e629.267bebcf@aol.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:45:03 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] still pondering on le/lei/la/lai... To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com In a message dated 00-06-16 14:52:03 EDT, aulun writes: << Is this true? lai nanmu pu finti la fegboixa'e. >> "The mass of things called nanmu invented the thing called fegboixa'e" , maybe "Men invented angry ball hand" but both names take on odd meanings here (assuming that "fegboixa'e" has a meaning I recognize -- boxing glove?). In any case, assuming that fegboixa'e is some real thing, I suppose that the inventors were what we would call men, unless they are what we would call women. There aren't a lot of alternatives.