From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Mar 28 08:36:34 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:36:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FOHB2-0006TM-6Q for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:36:16 -0800 Received: from web81309.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.199.125]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FOHAx-0006TE-B5 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:36:15 -0800 Received: (qmail 1875 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Mar 2006 16:36:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=w+my2JDOO16hHsn4/+CbOWy77DyfS/4AC6T75LoQfFqFS1/7bW1PtHqBb8vWbX7aEnrhN5ds0q3i0NctabGr25dggqsswyFW3qyOrutaPKgJZVkPgz/qf0LK397Dfo7ruBAK59bljhLVvaI4TGPF9PJKpnr5OSgbMChdJjO9xDg= ; Message-ID: <20060328163610.1873.qmail@web81309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [70.230.183.14] by web81309.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:36:10 PST Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:36:10 -0800 (PST) From: John E Clifford Subject: [lojban] Re: What exactly is ranti? To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <200603281051.57079.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-archive-position: 11267 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: clifford-j@sbcglobal.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Pierre Abbat wrote: > My hair is soft, but not in the same way that > tofu is soft. Rather, judging by > my nails which are made of the same stuff as my > hair, my hair is actually > very hard. So should I say {lo mi kerfa cu > jdari .iku'i loi mi kerfa cu > ranti}, This looks about right, hairs are hard (by keratin standards, say) but hair (en masse) is soft -- malleable, etc. So what is individually hard collectively is malleable. Probably not an unusual situation. or should I say {lo sobjdu cu ranti > .iku'i loi mi kerfa cu ...}? > > phma > > > 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. > > 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.