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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham 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: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:50:38 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([192.168.123.127]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PMBni-0000dl-8u; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:50:14 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list jbovlaste); Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:49:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PMBmn-0000df-0i for jbovlaste-real@lojban.org; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:49:17 -0800 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.121]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PMBmj-0000dT-3Q for jbovlaste@lojban.org; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:49:16 -0800 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=Inhw+Jdt7z1D3BivGPfn2aw54OvUEJw5lAn/booRZkE= c=1 sm=0 a=wPDyFdB5xvgA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=9o99xeNKNPYSmM5t9x5+TQ==:17 a=lyRIISN7GWKkSj9n4aoA:9 a=fhG8Hfa60YGYblrt54gvSIgpH40A:4 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=9o99xeNKNPYSmM5t9x5+TQ==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 75.176.118.168 Received: from [75.176.118.168] ([75.176.118.168:42015] helo=chausie) by cdptpa-oedge04.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id F6/E1-13137-CAF70FC4; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:49:00 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471C71631C for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:48:55 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: jbovlaste@lojban.org Subject: [jbovlaste] Re: kunkemgerplucpi Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:48:51 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <201011250037.05069.phma@phma.optus.nu> <20101126145735.GT4029@lake.fysh.org> In-Reply-To: <20101126145735.GT4029@lake.fysh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201011262248.53559.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: jbovlaste@lojban.org X-list: jbovlaste Content-Length: 492 Lines: 18 On Friday 26 November 2010 09:57:35 Zefram wrote: > Michael Turniansky wrote: > >> I'm guessing, knowing my etymology, that a gerplucpi is a canary. But > > > >what the heck is a mineral canary? > > Mining canary? As used to detect low oxygen levels? Yes. But sometimes one is called "the canary in the coal mine" when one is neither a literal canary nor in a literal mine. Pierre -- When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates. Já não percebe nada, já não percebe nada.