From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Aug 20 17:12:34 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GExOb-0004pl-5D for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:12:01 -0700 Received: from pi.meson.org ([66.134.26.207]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GExOY-0004pX-Di for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:12:00 -0700 Received: (qmail 23961 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2006 00:11:55 -0000 Received: from nagas.meson.org (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (1000@192.168.1.101) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 21 Aug 2006 00:11:55 -0000 Message-ID: <44E8FA4A.1000508@kli.org> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:11:54 -0400 From: "Mark E. Shoulson" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: mabla References: <47859832.20060820235613@mail.ru> <936884054.20060821070718@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <936884054.20060821070718@mail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 12524 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mark@kli.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Yanis Batura wrote: > Hmm, my question was why {vlagi} was in the reference list of {mabla}, > and not, say, {besna} or {since}. > I guess because the list is in English, and in the culture of most English-speakers, {vlagi} is easily associated with {mabla}. In other words, while Lojban and its gismu may be culturally neutral, the English gismu list and its references aren't. ~mark 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.