From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jan 22 10:38:45 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:38:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1Ajjiy-0004kP-Jx for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:38:40 -0800 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:38:40 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: srebandu Message-ID: <20040122183840.GR17764@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200401212330.15845.phma@webjockey.net> <20040122060753.GP17764@digitalkingdom.org> <0CDD0AF1-4CBC-11D8-83AE-000393D7C842@gonzul.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0CDD0AF1-4CBC-11D8-83AE-000393D7C842@gonzul.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7002 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, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:19:16PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Jan 22, 2004, at 7:07 PM, 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. > > > Hmmm ... also, unless a medical person speaks out, an allergy is > not so much an erroneous response against a non-threat, as it is > an overzealous response against otherwise benign levels of > potentially-threatening substances.. > > I speak only as a seasonal allergy sufferer :-) That simply does not apply to food allergies, sorry. Unless you feel that wheat and corn are potentially-threatening substances? 8) -Robin, mildly allergic to just about everything. -- 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