Return-path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on chain.digitalkingdom.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, FREEMAIL_FROM,SPF_PASS,T_DKIM_INVALID,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Personal-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on chain.digitalkingdom.org Envelope-to: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Delivery-date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:59:12 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([192.168.123.127]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OYML1-0003T2-Ff; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:58:42 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list jbovlaste); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OYMK8-0003Sw-6A for jbovlaste-real@lojban.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:57:44 -0700 Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com ([209.85.160.181]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OYMK3-0003Sh-KE for jbovlaste@lojban.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:57:43 -0700 Received: by gyg4 with SMTP id 4so3484215gyg.40 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:57:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tHMXYM/+TWoPfUs21MiGxZ5cD+uxxjrI/JAg80MnnfY=; b=FOUKZ94yT4yjFXeYR3Su2j2rVBcKUtsxfi/SYqPHS5f5XW0L1Y5eSOgFaJ0VXbiFez 7HMcWSLjMg43Y8dIJuOJGCuZU/p/BwjyVdi6bjNKSGFNWhqIK6i5PmZfi5WWItzcxa9U 85Pw8NTt4k/S+B6aFURkdbbmKB144qaH8/ONA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=fTh2i4FSUTtyU9Riacza4g8g4g+09IQmCHqFdnE66ZY5A6gFa/zuVpTeUEy4eBTdis VJaylYsiAeHTcfcdTnOs3M/58FOGDPnt500tKAV4AziWzgeVz73IsLdu6vXUkTU4rT+A oD5bxqBFt8bZef8rMmXa6EXigVcW8L+aT5VHo= Received: by 10.101.180.6 with SMTP id h6mr15372381anp.112.1278953851910; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:57:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.177.7 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:57:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <130555.40063.qm@web88006.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100712115758.GA13842@lake.fysh.org> <267856.88875.qm@web88003.mail.re2.yahoo.com> From: John Cowan Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:57:09 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: L3wZ2t3Plaq3W-L-2c6oLwvz054 Message-ID: Subject: [jbovlaste] Re: Alice in Wonderland 03 To: jbovlaste@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cowan@ccil.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: jbovlaste@lojban.org X-list: jbovlaste Content-Length: 593 Lines: 20 On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Luke Bergen wrote: > mmm, this is why I hate English.  Words shouldn't have primary, secondary, > and a hundred other possible meanings. Life is hard. > So, given this English definition, what would we call the hair on a cats > face that is not the long vibrissae? "Fur". "Whiskers" when applied to non-humans always means vibrissae, as far as I know. > Which of these meanings is referred to in alice? The word appears three times: twice about the White Rabbit, once about the Dormouse. Both these animals have vibrissae.