From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Wed Aug 11 16:14:07 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:14:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41901.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.152]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.32) id 1Bv2IB-0005Ys-MM for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:13:59 -0700 Message-ID: <20040811231328.2556.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.43.74.183] by web41901.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:13:28 PDT Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:13:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: The Lojban Wikipedia is up To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <411AA485.5010304@thestonecutters.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 8425 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list xod: > It's like saying a pen is "a small cylinder with one messy end" instead > of "like a pencil, only with ink". One is more literal, but the other is > a whole lot more useful. I'm not sure you could say that in Lojban though, where {pinsi} and {penbi} appear to be utterly different concepts. All is well with x1 and x2, but then you reach x3 and they seem to be two totally different relationships. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail