From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Oct 26 15:29:51 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:29:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlXgc-0001BW-Pd for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:29:51 -0700 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.239]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlXga-0001BN-7h for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:29:50 -0700 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so935767nze for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:29:46 -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=RZk6bpODoHIZF0hkQwZhXWUTUU03IbAtKKbfduZI/aQ=; b=oklDejyuGezucVBh61fsJVPh1Q0rXdemtwRgsLya5H3kRw1flwhyMQBDJ1Y7nEENPEFuIGwd1+c2Ms/dFau5UhwTiajx0fY9mFdhV6JjTz5ci+vi7S9sL30fqQQNWosoUUPK9XFc/FzrqIkG3v/Mm4TZ5paYh4SuhogxFT6MOhU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kZUcfs0CxqVtiTaW7vrhcNlC1UNazzbet8g6g993h4vknRs7p5IdBlRYrXEDf5atfv+v4P4tcJ64uFjbMIKzv0xobqwlJRJZhdouoZKZQhKZRGca8mkizwEY267Tk35QsV2iYuA8B2UX55EU40eGIaIRQUlLH1e8apCfba8+Ugk= Received: by 10.142.187.2 with SMTP id k2mr1016129wff.1193437785460; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.107.8 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <975a94850710261529l138ddd54l11dbd7870da04bdc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:29:45 -0700 From: "Joel Shellman" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome In-Reply-To: <2204fa080710261503ue4df8cbnab58026306087816@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <821531.97363.qm@web27709.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <4720DEC4.3040806@lojban.org> <975a94850710251146g2f1cb00eka98d0ec87c02ae3b@mail.gmail.com> <47210CF9.9010906@lojban.org> <975a94850710251510h57f6d0d1ue3d900ca8b7369f9@mail.gmail.com> <4721E54F.7070001@lojban.org> <975a94850710260905u5d0dc9ddw77a85a78aa082c04@mail.gmail.com> <4722415B.2000106@lojban.org> <975a94850710261310y7e2586d4p60cc69af7881a9f8@mail.gmail.com> <2204fa080710261503ue4df8cbnab58026306087816@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5692 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jshellman@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 10/26/07, Jared Angell wrote: > Perhaps lojban is such a 'perfect' language in terms of how well thought out > and logical it is on so many levels that it is impossible to speak it on a > broad level with it's current rules. > > If a word such a geodesic dome requires this much debate then if the > language suddenly had 1,000,000 speakers how would anyone ever be able to > get anything across on a specific topic. Perhaps I owe an apology for hijacking the thread. I don't think any of my posts in this conversation were specific to a discussion on how to say geodesic dome. There were several suggestions early on that were pertinent, and then I went off on a more general discussion because of my curiosity. I apologize if this caused some confusion.