From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 19 09:48:06 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 19 May 2004 09:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BQUEW-0002fC-OO for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 09:47:56 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 09:47:56 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: The Analytical Language of John Wilkins Message-ID: <20040519164756.GF6978@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7924 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 Wed, May 19, 2004 at 02:53:41PM -0000, sshiskom wrote: > Yes, it is inevitable, that Borges' masterpiece, "The Analytical > Language of John Wilkins", should be translated to any language which > dares to claim itself to be "logical". Can you explain the source a bit please? It sounds like a table of contents I once heard for a Chinese book of animal pictures. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi