From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jun 20 13:57:57 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:57:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19TSxD-0005cC-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:57:51 -0700 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:57:51 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: jbovlaste example. Message-ID: <20030620205751.GP7321@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20030620201703.GH7321@digitalkingdom.org> <20030620204926.49807.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030620204926.49807.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 5720 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 Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:49:26PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:11:55PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > > > "kunti", or "kutyjbi" for "near-vacuum". > > > > kunti is exactly what the original poster was arguing against; > > vacuum is *not* empty. > > I would have said he was arguing that "vacuum" _does_ mean "empty". > Travis said: "Just because we've never observed a perfect vacuum > or the lack of gravity, shouldn't affect the meanings of the words." You keep snipping too much. We were talking about human-constructed vacuum inside a room here on earth, which presumably is not perfect. -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