From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Aug 05 15:31:08 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G9UfS-0008Is-Jl for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:30:50 -0700 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G9UfR-0008Ik-Au for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:30:50 -0700 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id a27so420246nfc for ; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:30:47 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LMVwemMZ3F1YdbBW+F/kGSiSO3dFiiKvD7zyyqE5kpOSlKNXy1OcyF+yTbdyslj+3MXt7g5N3oqEZSb5MYspc3CHeOgpo3xV6dLIBKurZRkEhpK63wtYiAHiytYbyeeO9P2FXyoMdPS4gTj7+3RtrFYNnHwBsO4NTmct1eG7CtI= Received: by 10.78.165.16 with SMTP id n16mr1991292hue; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.159.4 with HTTP; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 15:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 18:30:47 -0400 From: "Matt Arnold" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Elephants Dream In-Reply-To: <20060805212500.55479.qmail@web56410.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060805212500.55479.qmail@web56410.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 12328 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 8/5/06, Nathaniel Krause wrote: > The title has two meanings (that I can think of) in English: a) "Elephants > are dreaming" or b) "In general, elephants do dream." So, in order to be > really sure how to translate it, we should know which the original author > meant. > > -sen I do not think it is safe to assume that the author considered that distinction. If there was any reason to name this film "Elephants Dream", that reason is not readily apparent. On 8/5/06, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > I have *no* idea what the plot of Elephants Dream is. Does anyone? > -- > Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ It's a great film; I love it; but as it stands there are precious few theories which would seem to hold up for long, about its plot, setting, and the motivations of its characters. -epkat 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.