From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jan 05 10:12:32 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:12:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H2tY4-0001tb-7Z for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:12:12 -0800 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.239]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H2tXy-0001tP-4z for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:12:11 -0800 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so9986577wxd for ; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=bRfjIuYtC8TvxQLuRtlKF/sXbM+Ibhen4bz5qFezdww6g4cArPcvyFR89veIljfCL3Vzf8ZE72tObD0c0r6bU5KvTa5EQu38leHgGzxyDs1QMGEAF7ZZEEPSOSLcCyqKczPuWwV0rBI74Jyv1DjmreaGhnVzJ7MgW2utT7LSUFQ= Received: by 10.90.80.8 with SMTP id d8mr980303agb.1168020724761; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.31.16 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3ccac5f10701051012g4a37b11fnc22ce33e68d30747@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 21:12:04 +0300 From: "Cyril Slobin" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Duty, promice etc... In-Reply-To: <925d17560701050934yc0c5158w7d06fb2f916dc9a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3ccac5f10701050608x71a6381p89a54e54e2239e65@mail.gmail.com> <95093.56426.qm@web81311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <925d17560701050934yc0c5158w7d06fb2f916dc9a@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: a9c4fc1809adba1d X-Spam-Score: -2.6 X-Spam-Score-Int: -25 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 13495 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: slobin@ice.ru Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list coi xorxes > Could you give examples where the English "promise" means anything > other than what is promised, {lo se nupre}? What I really try to say is "You promise is silly". What does it mean? "The action you are promised to do is silly"? "The event that you have given a promise is silly"? "The event that you are keeping to fulfil you promise is silly"? Nothing of this in particular and all of this at once. ... zo banzu na terbri la'e vo'a ... -- Cyril Slobin 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.