From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Mar 27 10:00:40 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:00:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFc3p-00072M-9h for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:00:29 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFc3p-00072F-1A for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:00:29 -0800 Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:00:29 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: New to Lojban and a question Message-ID: <20050327180029.GW10094@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20050326194416.60028.qmail@web60502.mail.yahoo.com> <537d06d005032705071496f143@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <537d06d005032705071496f143@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9677 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 Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 03:07:23PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:44:16 -0800 (PST), Ryan Gray > wrote: > > > > I would think that a logical language such as Lojban would have > > more precise words for these ideas. > > I'm reminded of the Lojban proverb, "The price of infinite > precision is infinite verbosity". lo nu cusku se kai lo cimni ka satci cu se sarcu lo nu cusku ci'i da Unfortunately, satci is (IMO) Wholly unsatisfying for this, and most other, uses of the English word "precision". I've yet to come up with anything I like much better, though. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/