From jkominek@miranda.org Tue Sep 24 20:19:16 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miranda.org ([209.58.150.153] ident=qmailr) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 17u2hm-0004f6-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:19:14 -0700 Received: (qmail 23216 invoked by uid 534); 25 Sep 2002 03:16:50 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:16:50 -0600 From: Jay F Kominek To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: cmavo for emphasis? Message-ID: <20020924211650.A5809@miranda.org> References: <20020923112454.G6159@miranda.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from a.rosta@lycos.co.uk on Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:19:22AM +0100 X-archive-position: 1581 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:19:22AM +0100, And Rosta wrote: > Interestingly someone took the trouble to edit such a casual f-word > out of my wiki page the other day; perhaps it is only British > sensibilities that are inured to it. Me, actually. Seemed a bit more appropriate since it is, after all, the first thing Google turns up for you. > > Anything I said about your rightness or wrongness was entirely in > > the scope of whether or not it worked for emphasis. (Except the > > missing 'cu's. :) > > Does "broda du" parse as a tanru? Sure... > What I had in mind was the competence to express yourself in Lojban > so that the meaning encoded by your sentences matches the meaning > you intended to express linguistically; it's that competence that I > feel remains underdeveloped in the community. ...but then those sentences, if I remember them correctly, would've lacked a selbri, and not really meant much. (Least of all what was intended. ;) -- Jay Kominek X is the second worst windowing system in the world, but all the others are tied for first.