From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jun 18 17:01:14 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19Smqw-0006ep-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:00:34 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:00:34 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: jbovlaste example. Message-ID: <20030619000032.GB31909@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20030618232323.GY31909@digitalkingdom.org> <20030618235227.17415.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030618235227.17415.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 5698 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 Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:52:27PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > Can vacuum marji? > > > > I think that it can, because there's never *nothing* in a > > vacuum. More to the point, if you're in a vacuum, that very > > lack of material *is* your material surroundings. If people > > think that's a really bad idea, let me know. > > I doubt it can be both marji and lack of marji. Again, a vacuum isn't really lack of marji, just extreme sparseness. > How about {vabybasti kumfa} or {vabystika kumfa}? I don't think vanbi matches at all, actually. vanbi is everything from the air to the trees to my mood. I did think of it at one point, and rejected it. marji has the profound place-structure benefit of being able to specify the composition. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "but I'm not stupid and people are not stupid who think samely with me" -- from an actual, real, non-spam mail sent to webmaster@lojban.org http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui