From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Mar 23 15:09:33 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JdYNg-0002uw-HG for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:09:33 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JdYNY-0002u4-QQ for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:09:31 -0700 Received: from chausie (chausie.ixazon.lan [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F39CE4BD for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:09:22 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: goods Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:09:21 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200803231536.01201.phma@phma.optus.nu> <925d17560803231430x4851ccb7y2657f853991211d5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560803231430x4851ccb7y2657f853991211d5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803231809.21296.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14249 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sunday 23 March 2008 17:30, Jorge Llambías wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > How do we say "goods" or "a good" in Lojban? > > selpo'e, selve'u What about free goods, such as air? Air is neither possessed nor sold, unless someone does something like compressing air into a bottle. How about something based on {vamji}? Pierre 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.