From matt.mattarn@gmail.com Wed Aug 01 12:01:55 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IGJS8-0002cn-6f for llg-members@lojban.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:01:52 -0700 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so281583uge for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:01:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=AChjZTkjlnxI89WmQlt2Mr8DchV92s5Uo0XYdNMyiWVS+IsT2DGv0NQrD4NVS3de41y4Y7a6lawK0e2bOAe6JL03NS/sJ77sFBduZZy33MisbeKFGpLpC9JG0rITCggfl/LrYiIFVNcDcWpVo11V5XLL9qU6qyDRQ+T8B1PpZ4E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=jI6tLHH7vQ5reNFl6CzlCogM794TPm/4LRgB+TRWw9QatMIHsyFd63mDWuT1dsgBmAHqKb5fLyauRhRVwlFegnV4JqYIVxj84vMivR4OB1gqL2De05cnWi96Vw/3NBYXGZsr2uAHFEb5fKSORy0Fm0VmgVAdt0b7lSDIku76EWM= Received: by 10.78.165.16 with SMTP id n16mr311719hue.1185994904942; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.118.16 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:01:44 -0400 From: "Matt Arnold" To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Pirate terminology 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 X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 312 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members New subject line. On 8/1/07, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Wednesday 01 August 2007 11:49, Jorge Llambías wrote: > > I was able to track down "yo ho ho and a bottle of rum", but where > > does the {bi} come from? > > An old coin called a Spanish milled dollar was also called a piece of eight. > It was a large coin with radial grooves along which it could be broken into > eight bits. Thus a quarter is two bits. > > Pierre > > >