From cowan@ccil.org Sat Dec 02 18:55:55 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@locke.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 3 Dec 2000 02:55:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 3796 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2000 02:55:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 3 Dec 2000 02:55:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta2 with SMTP; 3 Dec 2000 02:55:51 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA09428; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 23:18:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 23:18:19 -0500 (EST) To: Pierre Abbat Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] common words In-Reply-To: <00120221494908.11907@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Pierre Abbat wrote: > That reminds me of the French for shallow: peu profond. Not really so strange: anglophones don't hesitate to say that the *depth* of something is 5 cm, although nobody would call 5 cm *deep*. > The place structure of "mifra" is: x1 is ciphertext, x2 is plaintext, x3 is the > type of cipher. What is the place structure of "tolmifra"? I don't know: what is the opposite of encryption? I don't know what "tolmlatu" means either. Some relationships are not scales. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter