From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Mar 28 00:05:03 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:05:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFpF0-0003WD-RV for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:04:55 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFpEz-0003W6-CA for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:04:53 -0800 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:04:53 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: New to Lojban and a question Message-ID: <20050328080453.GZ10094@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20050326194416.60028.qmail@web60502.mail.yahoo.com> <537d06d005032705071496f143@mail.gmail.com> <20050327180029.GW10094@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <537d06d00503280000aa398c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <537d06d00503280000aa398c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9685 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 Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:00:17AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:00:29 -0800, Robin Lee Powell > wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 03:07:23PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > > > 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 > > ki'e camgusmis > > I was wondering whether there was already an accepted Lojban form > for this saying, since I wouldn't have known how to come up with > one. > > Is that such a traditional form, or is it something you came up > with? Came up with it on the spot. -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/