From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Mar 23 16:56:19 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jda30-0006jB-Ed for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:56:18 -0700 Received: from pi.meson.org ([66.134.26.207]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jda2t-0006it-FG for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:56:18 -0700 Received: (qmail 2551 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2008 19:56:07 -0400 Received: from nagas.meson.org (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (1000@192.168.1.101) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 23 Mar 2008 19:56:07 -0400 Message-ID: <47E6EE17.4030802@kli.org> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:56:07 -0400 From: "Mark E. Shoulson" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: goods References: <200803231536.01201.phma@phma.optus.nu> <925d17560803231430x4851ccb7y2657f853991211d5@mail.gmail.com> <200803231809.21296.phma@phma.optus.nu> In-Reply-To: <200803231809.21296.phma@phma.optus.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14250 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 Pierre Abbat wrote: > 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}? > Or perhaps based on {xaksu}. Isn't that what a resource is? Something that gets used? ~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.