From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Mar 31 11:17:05 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:17:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JgOZ7-0007ND-BZ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:17:05 -0700 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.237]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JgOZ3-000793-Cu for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:17:05 -0700 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c48so865924wra.1 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:16:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=12ZpiYZD8PcMeJcwSpLbsndqgkzIMiC6wNKiXpPw1+s=; b=DdYx5iIByEbQN+fSF9tiTTLRJ/h8WuvOAUa58asZHzCHMOJxeQALLqliv/HCnSsFLyaYz7KAdmZNm7WpnPEcZrmyR568PTlWo9ZqUkZ7rEzKtSsB8O6mrciVXlKr4G/BiGBQiaPtUFmDTmsSwI3A6b4qO2jFeOccmtoCPkYp7Zk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PVN4M0xDfH6byTxCVy41GgGOj+HhNRmTJFb+9In+3CeTNPOzXQfn3GPFe73GMzYQ/FvJECJ+VD8tXYMCxrnlRYFq3GBNPbgBiMB8jG9VRY5HjIup0x7IXnTKg19OUXkn+zyWGQD1p5+2ekIUOvy4IJ5Cv/BRAU0ltCTbN5jGvPE= Received: by 10.141.96.21 with SMTP id y21mr3619118rvl.132.1206987414652; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.87.17 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <96f789a60803311116v389f0bd2gddb96e00ed9d018d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:16:54 -0400 From: "Michael Turniansky" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Picture book In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <96f789a60803310921w5447b09eo5b0cc347d323b4b9@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 404 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners FWIW, in re: this discussion, my guiding principal was that if the original author of this work thought that a child could, for example, distinguish between a sparrow and a pigeon, then there is no reason for us, 150 years later, to second guess that. There is nothing inherently harder about "cipnrsparau" over "cipni". Similarly for simplifying things that the author didn't, e.g. "George is working" instead of "George is making hay". --gejyspa