From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Oct 16 12:27:46 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ihs4w-0003wi-1v for llg-members@lojban.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:27:46 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:27:46 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: LLG AGM 2007: The Most Common Word In The Language Message-ID: <20071016192745.GF5630@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-members@lojban.org References: <20071016172956.GA24966@xivas> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071016172956.GA24966@xivas> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-archive-position: 428 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:29:56PM +0300, Veijo Vilva wrote: > Xorlo is an abomination. Instead of elegantly writing "mi viska le > cribe" I'd have to write something like "mi viska ro le su'o > cribe" and, even worse, instead of "mi viska lo gerku" I'd have to > write "mi viska su'o lo ro gerku poi zasti" It depends on what you want to say, but for most purposes, {mi viska su'o gerku} says what you want. Oh no, a whole extra syllable! *gasp* You most certainly do *not* need the {poi zasti}. > or something even worse in order to express even the very simplest > things. The naked gadri of Xorlo are totally useless, totally > emasculated. You people can't be serious. I really hope so, I > really do. We're serious, and there are very good reasons. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/