From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Mar 27 16:09:56 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:09:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18yhRO-00058o-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:09:50 -0800 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:09:50 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Alice proofreading Message-ID: <20030328000950.GG16560@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030326175926.02e3aa60@pop.east.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 4657 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:22:32PM -0000, jjllambias2000 wrote: > la noras cusku di'e > > How about selkajnyta'e (se kajna tanxe). I think of a cupboard > > as primarily an enclosed set of shelves. > > Ok, I'll use that. The problem was that the text talks of > cupboards and book-shelves, I used {cukta kajna} for the latter, > and I wanted to make more of a distinction between them. After > all, a {se kajna tanxe} could just as well be a bookshelf. Except not; bookshelves are not normally enclosed. This is, AFAIK, the primary difference between the two. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi