From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Apr 15 12:54:01 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1BECvx-0002Wi-5r for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:54:01 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:54:01 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: "biker gangs" Message-ID: <20040415195401.GT21966@digitalkingdom.org> References: <200404140553.BAA05929@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> <20040414023331.W31434@fresco.Math.McGill.CA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040414023331.W31434@fresco.Math.McGill.CA> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 641 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 02:33:31AM -0400, Andrew Archibald wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:34:03AM -0400, der Mouse wrote: > > I was mulling over the sample discussed here a while back that, in > > its initial form, used "relxilma'e zekri girzu" to mean "biker > > gangs". > > > Quite aside from using "relxilma'e" to mean "motorcycle" as distinct > > from "bicycle" (it seems to me that it really refers to both), > > Well, in fact it was me that used it, and I did not attempt to use it > to mean "motorcycle but not bicycle"; I decided it was better to leave > it vague about which was meant, figuring out that most readers could > figure out that bicycle gangs are not normally very threatening. But it's a great mental picture. :-) -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi