From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Oct 25 11:24:00 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Il7N8-0006ff-ST for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:24:00 -0700 Received: from web63604.mail.re1.yahoo.com ([69.147.97.74]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Il7N1-0006ei-1s for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:23:58 -0700 Received: (qmail 14908 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Oct 2007 18:23:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=WtonAFTz7T5510Rsp6gxtvtAyS15wD6eDWTOC+3U/gRwH2+vQkUezRd3rFQVS5DUOE6aIOlhBPsrEWCt9m8yi+QaJJF+oxmkhZyTIpHv5/oW0oiSNkQmOCi8B7s7NB8xmKhUDgoduCmNA3LZlH5Ex4V2v310q9R6Ia04+ZFC4zw=; X-YMail-OSG: fIQchZYVM1mL3pUPwu_x3ieAhnc1lY.Fy3NhtE6s Received: from [209.119.40.81] by web63604.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:23:42 PDT Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:23:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Weller Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <975a94850710250956t2cd0e855ncce7c1681ff719e2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1681787744-1193336622=:14653" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <345977.14653.qm@web63604.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5626 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jbomricmen@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners --0-1681787744-1193336622=:14653 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Joel Shellman wrote:I would expect we would not have a 1-1 correspondence between words in different langages. Amen brother! I think that many of the vocabulary debates here go nowhere because people are expecting to be able to find one lojban word that captures all of the shades of meaning of one nat-lang (usually English) word. mi'e skot. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1681787744-1193336622=:14653 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Joel Shellman <jshellman@gmail.com> wrote:
I would expect we would not have a 1-1 correspondence between words in
different langages.


Amen brother!

I think that many of the vocabulary debates here go nowhere because people are expecting to be able to find one lojban word that captures all of the shades of meaning of one nat-lang (usually English) word.


mi'e skot.

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