From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Nov 24 10:02:34 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:02:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.22) id 1AOL2b-0000gM-6o for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:02:29 -0800 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:02:29 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Is srana symmetrical? Message-ID: <20031124180229.GR9729@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20031123212113.GO9729@digitalkingdom.org> <20031124021023.5480.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031124021023.5480.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6760 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 Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 06:10:23PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > In otherwords, is the following lojban statment true: > > > > le du'u da srana de cu roroi nibli le du'u de srana da > > The tag {sera'a} is used much more frequently than plain {ra'a}. > That at least would seem to suggest that {srana} is not > symmetrical. That is much more likely to be because the keyword for ra'a, "pertained to by", is incredibly confusing. I, for one, have no idea what it means, and have been avoiding ra'a for that reason. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui