From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 17 18:48:12 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 17 May 2006 18:48:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FgXbu-0002w7-VR for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:47:31 -0700 Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.8]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FgXbn-0002vk-BT for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:47:30 -0700 Received: (qmail 18141 invoked from network); 18 May 2006 01:47:21 -0000 Received: from at.ropine.com (HELO [192.168.1.56]) (sethg@[66.92.76.238]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 May 2006 01:47:20 -0000 Message-ID: <446BD227.8040906@ropine.com> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 21:47:19 -0400 From: Seth Gordon User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: A (rather long) discussion of {all} References: <20060517151821.39056.qmail@web81304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 11596 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sethg@ropine.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list > This idea of 'absolutely all, with no exceptions whatsoever' as a > definition for 'all' seems to have been batted around a bit by this > point. I don't find that I use it in normal conversation -- does anyone > have a good example of actual usage in this way? (in context would be > better than more designed examples). I have a feeling that it is really > seldom, if ever, used. Perhaps one of the experienced Lojbanists on this list can offer a concise phrase meaning "absolutely all, with no exceptions whatsoever", so that anyone who wanted to be so emphatic could say {lo ... broda} or {lo broda be ...} instead of {lo ro broda}, and the meaning of {ro} could remain stable. 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.