From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jan 06 21:12:51 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:12:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ev6Nn-0003E5-0G for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:12:51 -0800 Received: from tweak.intranet.csupomona.edu ([134.71.184.65]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ev6Nk-0003Dy-0r for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:12:50 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tweak.intranet.csupomona.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0ECF14A22 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:12:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from tweak.intranet.csupomona.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tweak [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29175-06-3 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:12:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from tulip (pool-71-110-197-25.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.110.197.25]) by tweak.intranet.csupomona.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDCC14A02 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:12:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:12:34 -0800 From: "Heath N. Caldwell" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Heath is the Man!. Message-ID: <20060107051210.GA3820@tulip> References: <20060106233231.GA9015@manticore.csupomona.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel (Linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csupomona.edu X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 2912 X-Approved-By: hncaldwell@csupomona.edu X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: hncaldwell@csupomona.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 2006-01-06 18:53, Matt Arnold wrote: > It depends on what you mean by that. Your sentence literally means > Heath is the same as one male humanoid person. It would be a bad habit > to use "mintu" as a substitute for "is." To get into a Lojbanic frame > of mind you must leave behind the need for the word "is." For > instance, if you want to say "Heath is a male humanoid person" you can > just say {xit. nanmu}. Ah, but I am not saying that Heath is A man. I am saying Heath is THE man. It is not sufficient to just describe Heath as being an exemplar of a group. The purpose is to say that there is one and only one "The man", and that Heath is he. Plus I am just joking around. -- Heath Caldwell hncaldwell@csupomona.edu, GPG-Key-ID: 0x0967843B Web Programmer - I&IT, Web Development - Cal Poly Pomona