From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 07 11:35:49 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:35:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ED4lx-0000fb-OT for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:35:49 -0700 Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com ([195.54.107.70]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1ED4lr-0000fQ-Sy for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:35:49 -0700 Received: from [85.226.145.39] ([85.226.145.39] [85.226.145.39]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20050907183541.WGNO27082.mxfep01.bredband.com@[85.226.145.39]> for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:35:41 +0200 Message-ID: <431F31A6.6020600@handgranat.org> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:29:58 +0200 From: Sunnan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Gender trouble, (was Re: Re: Newbie Intro) References: <431A09AD.2000202@hypermetrics.com> <431C57A3.2010909@handgranat.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2009 X-Approved-By: sunnan@handgranat.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: sunnan@handgranat.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Matt Arnold wrote: > Geek used to be a bad thing, someone with low social skills, but not > anymore. > "To geek. Verb. To enjoy an intense interest in an obscure specialty > of difficulty." This is what geek means. Here is a Wikipedia article: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeks > Therefore, if anyone studies Lojban, they will probably meet this > definition. > -epkat It wasn't a complaint against the geek thing. I'm somewhat of a geek and used to be even more. It was about the sorority/fraternity thing; where I suggested pe'atamne instead. > > On 9/5/05, *Sunnan* > wrote: > > coifi'i doi nei,omis > > Matt Arnold wrote: > > > I am 15, am from Australia, and > > > am NOT a geek (*gasp* surprise!)...I consider myself to be a > > comfortable > > > black-box user with amateur HTML skills, but no further. > > Haha... if you're into Lojban, I'm sorry, you're a geek. ;) > > > > > > I agree. Welcome to the noble fraternity of geeks (and sorority, let > > us not forget Nora K.B.). > > And well, others. Can't we just be pe'atamne? > mi'e snan > >