From cowan@ccil.org Sat May 08 20:13:44 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 08 May 2004 20:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.ccil.org ([192.190.237.100]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.31) id 1BMeky-0007kk-J4 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 20:13:36 -0700 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BMeo8-0002YJ-Tq for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 23:16:52 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 23:16:52 -0400 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Iliad -- Belated Message-ID: <20040509031652.GC7661@ccil.org> References: <20040508232047.GD15961@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040508232047.GD15961@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: John Cowan X-archive-position: 7719 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cowan@ccil.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > The anger is a song you sing, Oh Goddess, the anger of the son of > Peleus, Achilles, which destroyed and put the pain of many thousand > Axaio? and soon sent to hades the ghosts of many knights? but became one > himself from the treasure of the dog and all bird meat?. You're ignoring the imperative. prenraxai,o = Akhaiwoi/Akhaians/Achaeans/Greeks. > A song you sing really begins with the first seperation and argument of > Atreus' son, king of all men, and Achilles, who is like a god. Again you missed the imperative. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists, biologists and neurologists, along with whatever blood can be got out of grammarians. - Russ Rymer