From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 16 07:37:45 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:53:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1E52ZV-0005PR-Eh for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:37:45 -0700 Received: from sparkle.rodents.montreal.qc.ca ([216.46.5.7]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1E52ZR-0005PJ-Ix for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:37:45 -0700 Received: (from mouse@localhost) by Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21450; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:37:33 -0400 (EDT) From: der Mouse Message-Id: <200508161437.KAA21450@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Erik-Conspiracy: There is no Conspiracy - and if there were I wouldn't be part of it anyway. X-Message-Flag: Microsoft: the company who gave us the zombie armies. Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:34:59 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V4 #156 In-Reply-To: References: X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1739 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.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: mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners >> [...] entries have "cf." followed by a list [...]. What exactly is >> meant by that cf.? > I think that means "compare with" -- Yes. > I assume it comes from Latin like i.e. (id est) or e.g. (exempli > gratia), but I am really not sure. dictionary.com says "Latin. confer (compare).". /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B