Return-path: Envelope-to: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Delivery-date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:07:03 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G3jTi-0004a3-D3; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:06:55 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list jbovlaste); Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G3jTf-0004Zx-OO for jbovlaste-real@lojban.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:06:51 -0700 Received: from f74.mail.ru ([194.67.57.174]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G3jTe-0004Zq-7I for jbovlaste@lojban.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:06:51 -0700 Received: from mail by f74.mail.ru with local id 1G3jTc-000MxZ-00 for jbovlaste@lojban.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:06:48 +0400 Received: from [212.17.0.61] by win.mail.ru with HTTP; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:06:48 +0400 From: Yanis Batura To: jbovlaste@lojban.org Subject: [jbovlaste] =?windows-1251?Q?Re=3A Re=3A No Catch?= Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: mPOP Web-Mail 2.19 X-Originating-IP: unknown via proxy [212.17.0.61] Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:06:48 +0400 In-Reply-To: =?windows-1251?Q??= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: X-Spam-Score: -0.9 (/) X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ybatura@mail.ru Precedence: bulk Reply-to: jbovlaste@lojban.org X-list: jbovlaste X-Spam-Score: -0.8 (/) Content-Length: 812 Lines: 15 > You ask if it's "possible" to construct a "proper" lujvo for "catch". > 1) I think that it's certainly possible to construct such a lujvo. The lujvo > may not be very good, but it's still possible. > 2) What's a "proper" lujvo? Well-formed? Easily guessed? Both? > 3) What meaning(s) of "catch" do you want the lujvo to mean? How do you > discriminate between different lujvo for the sense you want? Does catching a fish > use the same word as catching a ball thrown to you? Does a dog catch a > Frisbee with the same word that I catch a Frisbee with? How is the catching > performed? What is caught? Using the word "catch" leaves a lot of leeway. (In > fact, "kavbu" captures some, but not all, of the senses of 'catch'.) You're right, I had to specify my question more _properly_ :)