From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Dec 29 13:25:30 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:25:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Es5Go-0001rQ-Ia for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:25:10 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Es5Go-0001rJ-Ak for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:25:10 -0800 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:25:10 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Umm, mrilu's kind of broken. Message-ID: <20051229212510.GM4222@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040908234642.GD24315@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040909170919.GH24315@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040909172648.GE29883@skunk.reutershealth.com> <20051229071823.GO5289@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <43B41CDB.9020608@ropine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43B41CDB.9020608@ropine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 10970 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 Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:28:59PM -0500, Seth Gordon wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:26:48PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > > > >>Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > >> > >> > >>>So we have a sender, and a location of the sender, and the > >>>recipient, but not the location of the recipient? > >> > >>I think x3 is the destination address, not the recipient. > >>Consider letters to Santa Claus or junk mail addressed to > >>"Occupant": they don't really have recipients. > > How would you translate: "I sent God a letter by sticking a note > into the Western Wall"? I'd try to avoid it, actually. :-) > The Wall seems more like the delivery system (x5) than the > recipient's address (x3), especially since the recipient is > omnipresent, but then where do you stick "la cevni" into the > sentence? I wouldn't use mrilu at all; mrilu is about transmitting things between address nodes in a network. mi benji le notci la cevni le stici bitmu lo makfa -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/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.