Received: from mail-yw0-f61.google.com ([209.85.213.61]:41389) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SuRuT-00015C-L8; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:31:49 -0700 Received: by yhoo21 with SMTP id o21sf2575298yho.16 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:31:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:message-id: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:content-disposition; bh=eHuY+/cQgfcNk4ZcQLymKMZUgOyMO06Mw2+IbDrsBJw=; b=huC5D7QKrIVQ0dHhctakHjmBLxPsPTWNgtaGxMSsnMFKK/a3BwHh4luGKiHJ0Sxh7t DP/+B8YyN8/a4Ka7Fy1LqfW5VFIA6JUenlV8XRKSv5ALwoWzj/9YiWxn91LJvNlA7kPG IlWGuJNGbLF0Y/52b1CKUsf5OXhfO399eumgM= Received: by 10.236.154.194 with SMTP id h42mr6230073yhk.8.1343323890944; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:31:30 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.101.198.4 with SMTP id a4ls696308anq.1.gmail; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.185.226 with SMTP id u62mr1033785yhm.23.1343323889559; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.185.226 with SMTP id u62mr1033784yhm.23.1343323889548; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chausie (cpe-069-132-101-103.carolina.res.rr.com. [69.132.101.103]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id i24si2230196anh.2.2012.07.26.10.31.28; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:31:28 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 69.132.101.103 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of phma@phma.optus.nu) client-ip=69.132.101.103; Received: from ip6-localhost (ip6-localhost [IPv6:::1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A89219BA for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:31:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: It's Greek to me Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:31:25 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <201207231411.12437.phma@phma.optus.nu> <50114048.2000009@gmx.de> <1343321077.32346.YahooMailNeo@web184405.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1343321077.32346.YahooMailNeo@web184405.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201207261331.26421.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Original-Sender: phma@phma.optus.nu X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 69.132.101.103 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of phma@phma.optus.nu) smtp.mail=phma@phma.optus.nu 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 Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.6 X-Spam_score_int: -5 X-Spam_bar: / On Thursday 26 July 2012 12:44:37 John E Clifford wrote: > complexity or may not recognize that what is being talked about is clearly > NOT a specimen of Ithkuil (there was a cartoon once of a person confronted > with some classic Greek inscription and dismissing it by saying it is all > Greek to him). A Navajo linguist had written a treatise about verbs in various Athabaskan languages and a thesis about comparative vocabulary in Cherokee and North Iroquoian languages. Of Muskogean languages, though, she knew nothing. Once someone asked her to translate a letter written in Seminole. She replied, "It's Creek to me." Pierre -- li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci -- 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.