From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 11 15:31:34 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:31:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1Bv1d0-0004fT-7U for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:31:26 -0700 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:31:26 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: The Lojban Wikipedia is up Message-ID: <20040811223126.GL30673@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200408080634.18420.phma@phma.hn.org> <200408111625.03899.phma@phma.hn.org> <20040811203139.GB30673@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <200408111659.13332.phma@phma.hn.org> <20040811210336.GF30673@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040811210336.GF30673@chain.digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 8419 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, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:03:36PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:59:13PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 August 2004 16:31, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > I don't see that assumption of singularity built into {farvi} *at* > > > *all*. > > > > I don't either, but the central concept in cladistics is the clade, > > which includes something and all its descendants. A clade is a > > branch (except the clade which is the whole tree), and "clade" comes > > from "klados", which means "branch". > > Just because it means branch doesn't mean I have to like you using > jimca. :-) Self-replying. Just for the record, jimca is fine, I just don't think it's the *best* for the purpose. I'm a lot less averse to metaphorical lujvo now that I've created a whole bunch of them *complete* *with* *place* *structure*. Doing so makes it obvious that Lojban words are more defined by place structure than keyword, and that anything that has the place you want is The Right Choice. I still think ralcku is asinine, though. mutmi'i I mind a lot less than I used to, although I think it's rarely the best choice for "software" (too broad). -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"