From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Nov 22 21:35:48 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:35:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gn7FB-00016Q-61 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:35:29 -0800 Received: from eastrmmtao05.cox.net ([68.230.240.34]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gn7F8-00016E-9L for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:35:28 -0800 Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.03 201-2131-130-104-20060516) with ESMTP id <20061123053530.ZOIE18065.eastrmmtao05.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:35:30 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([72.192.234.183]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id q5ab1V00n3y5FKc0000000; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:34:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4565329B.4090100@lojban.org> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:33:15 -0500 From: Bob LeChevalier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: ki'a References: <492596e80611182014o7608f9d3k76f7247f5926b98b@mail.gmail.com> <1df90d2b0611182026yeb05a5eo95f815883cb20fd@mail.gmail.com> <836504149.20061119104734@mail.ru> <4560FB73.5060706@lojban.org> <4810154213.20061120071558@mail.ru> <45622725.7010705@lojban.org> <45652CE8.5000800@phma.optus.nu> In-Reply-To: <45652CE8.5000800@phma.optus.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 13253 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Pierre Abbat wrote: > The semantic classifier system has nothing to do with gender, which > Lojban doesn't have. Gender in language IS a form of semantic classifier, having only 1 or 2 or 3 categories in Indo-European languages (and thus being rather useless most of the time, but apparently useful enough that most IE languages have those categories), but having larger numbers of genders/categories in other languages. lojbab 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.