From clark@compudata-systems.com Tue Jan 13 13:54:11 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:57:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail33.internethostingsolutions.com ([69.49.100.33]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AgWUE-0002a1-AV for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:54:10 -0800 X-Authenticated-User: clark.compudata-systems.com Received: from compudata-systems.com (d142-173-199-70.abhsia.telus.net [142.173.199.70]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail33.internethostingsolutions.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0DLs65F088484 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:54:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <400468FD.6060704@compudata-systems.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:54:05 -0700 From: Christopher Clark User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20031230 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Seasons' Greetings References: <4ad1347cce.47cce4ad13@imap.epfl.ch> In-Reply-To: <4ad1347cce.47cce4ad13@imap.epfl.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 463 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: clark@compudata-systems.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners GREGORY DYKE wrote: > Ask xorxes what he thought about the winter solstice! last june! > > Greg Hmm... "Celebrating the day approximately a fortnight before perihelion" seems to me to be the appropriate event. I just started learning lojban this week, though, so I'll leave lujvo creation to the more experienced readers. > durmijnunsla, btw, is a lujvo referring to celebrating an event of the > winter solstice, it's the most culturally neutral way to say it. -- Christopher Clark Pongidae, and proud of it. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey