Received: from mail-gy0-f189.google.com ([209.85.160.189]:41038) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RNUbj-0008Mn-DE; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:11:54 -0800 Received: by gyg4 with SMTP id 4sf6237106gyg.16 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:11:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:message-id:date:from:user-agent :mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=jhxkECqxqpcaMXdclGln8Lv5KlLn3E9B0C0cLBBP5XI=; b=TziuMfucqNiNsk0dxiqGOMYj6jW8c4DuuKdK2vodskaPnxUiGFmGFS+BcmVb4g8znR KH13C5i/69PKIh4/wBDkXXrsKCMRpzNTeQAnHZ4AuMwHxkco+lDEKGr5f4tcwt7zk5zb w6uxy4Bihs1keTwGj5JEOX2Cgi/DtyXuZQaq8= Received: by 10.236.124.77 with SMTP id w53mr6877212yhh.11.1320693098272; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:11:38 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.101.2.12 with SMTP id e12ls12414602ani.3.gmail; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.131.49 with SMTP id l37mr18452420yhi.0.1320693097171; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.131.49 with SMTP id l37mr18452419yhi.0.1320693097161; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-yw0-f50.google.com (mail-yw0-f50.google.com [209.85.213.50]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r67si4623859yhe.6.2011.11.07.11.11.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of celestialcognition@gmail.com designates 209.85.213.50 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.213.50; Received: by ywa8 with SMTP id 8so5480909ywa.9 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.116.14 with SMTP id o14mr6110563anc.106.1320693097034; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.103] (76-76-236-67.lisco.net. [76.76.236.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p5sm57877843anl.18.2011.11.07.11.11.35 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:11:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EB82D66.5080603@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:11:34 -0600 From: vitci'i User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110921 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] gender References: <201111062057.24471.phma@phma.optus.nu> <4EB73D68.8090506@gmail.com> <201111062230.31412.phma@phma.optus.nu> <4EB7526A.2070508@gmail.com> <1320681459.44222.YahooMailRC@web81307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1320687357.85830.YahooMailRC@web81306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4EB81C9F.4090300@gmail.com> <1320689797.1887.4.camel@fagricipni-desktop> <4EB823B4.4080700@gmail.com> <4EB82487.1080608@gmail.com> <4EB82819.2010603@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Original-Sender: celestialcognition@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of celestialcognition@gmail.com designates 209.85.213.50 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=celestialcognition@gmail.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: 0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / On 11/07/2011 01:06 PM, Craig Daniel wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:48 PM, vitci'i wrote: >> Nevertheless, it makes the omission explicit. > > No more so than saying "ta mlatu" makes the choice to not specify what > sort of cat explicit. > > - mi'e .kreig. Suppose we omit the place, and rely on tanru. How would you ask "what kind of gender?"? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.