From xod@thestonecutters.net Thu Jan 22 08:01:05 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:01:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from thestonecutters.net ([63.251.19.112] helo=chert.thestonecutters.net) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AjhGL-00039m-Ci for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:00:57 -0800 Received: from thestonecutters.net (p78-77.acedsl.com [66.114.78.77]) by chert.thestonecutters.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EFD148009 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:00:27 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <400FF3B3.5030505@thestonecutters.net> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:00:51 -0500 From: xod User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: srebandu References: <200401212330.15845.phma@webjockey.net> <20040122060753.GP17764@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20040122060753.GP17764@digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-archive-position: 7001 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Robin Lee Powell wrote: >On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:30:15PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > >>I made up {srebandu} for "allergy" and put it in jbovlaste, and >>also added the gloss "friendly fire". The word refers to any >>action of erroneously defending against something which is not a >>threat. Is "friendly fire" the correct term for this? >> >> > >No. "Friendly fire" is when you accidentally get shot by someone >whe is supposed to be on your own side. Generally this is *not* >used in cases of mistaken identity (i.e. where you meant to shoot >the person because you thought they were the enemy), but in cases >where you missed the enemy and hit a friend, or where an area of >effect weapon took out some friendly troops as well. > > I believe that in the popular press, "friendly fire" covers mistaken identity as well. -- "American imperialism is, by definition, a retreat away from global capitalism, a retreat from the invisible hand of markets in favor of a more dominant role for the visible fist of governments," argued Paul McCulley, a managing director of PIMCO, the world's largest bond investment fund.