From rslau@mindspring.com Sun Mar 07 10:14:12 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 07 Mar 2004 10:14:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from blount.mail.mindspring.net ([207.69.200.226]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B02ms-00071z-Bt for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2004 10:14:06 -0800 Received: from user-38ld39d.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.141.45] helo=sodor.mindspring.com) by blount.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1B02mq-0005kc-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2004 13:14:05 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sodor.mindspring.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19DF41F4 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 13:12:21 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 10/15/1999 with nmh-1.0.4 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: weird coincidence In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Mar 2004 06:44:35 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 13:12:21 -0500 From: Bob Slaughter Message-Id: <20040307181221.E19DF41F4@sodor.mindspring.com> X-archive-position: 7180 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rslau@mindspring.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list > Check this out: > > bancu means 'beyond' > > x1 exceeds/is beyond limit/boundary x2 from x3 in property/amount x4 > > Now go to http://www.bancutechnology.com/ > > Their slogan? "Beyond: on the other side of a bound...not limited to > position in space." > > Has anyone else seen this? How about others? > > mu'o mi'e .okus. My guess would be that this isn't a coincidence; either someone at the company is a Lojban fan, or (much less likely) 'bancu' is a 100% match from one of the source languages. -- Bob Slaughter, rslau@mindspring.com http://www.mindspring.com/~rslau/ North Georgia Modurail: http://www.mindspring.com/~rslau/ngm/ In which language of the world does the word 'taxi' mean "I cannot drive"? e'osai ko sarji la lojban fo lonu pilno -- http://www.lojban.org/