From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Dec 29 13:29:37 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:29:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Es5Kp-00020O-OF for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:29:19 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Es5Kp-00020F-Bp for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:29:19 -0800 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:29:19 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: New to Lojban and a question Message-ID: <20051229212919.GO4222@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> <4246F819.6080209@lojban.org> <20050327200806.GX10094@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d175605032715014e381357@mail.gmail.com> <20051229073151.GX5289@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 10972 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 11:54:10AM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote: > I haven't heard this rant before. Why doesn't steci, or some > variation thereof, work? Because "steci" is about "property x1 is specific to x2", not "description x1 has a lot of specificity", and I haven't the slightest idea how to make the places of steci mean what I want. -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.