From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Mar 13 21:10:38 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nqg61-000683-NU for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:10:37 -0800 Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com ([209.85.160.53]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nqg5v-000676-Iq for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:10:36 -0800 Received: by pwj3 with SMTP id 3so1280118pwj.40 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:10:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=dcltEcdCg2PZt9cWG9rRjQW63IUs7GZRjzc+TUVieLE=; b=uiYOKdncD7CBh7GzGapobFWzANBTQ3obMBP/hZOurW+UZeK76TKX2tu0pfSC0uZZ4f ytXI+Qlg8OmqQm33NIWIQjevECK1o2U0Gt1kUTvzu9ODI5toPxO+aZTVsxLINz4s12I/ Yg+7RfjTFUs/XmufEWoL8STa8XCdownmJ4daQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gNMojZHtuqlmF2lPQ6aqcDcy9Ea0FLXx6qYPLQfOdgUc6s6Vg7JndwbTfCqyFdYDDP zOw1HC5r+qTYf51Cgj1XGghaORmXqwFXj7CxnFnO5XIPdBr3/zaM37qa5BZA22Nnk75s Vpa2pacXTNXkO5fM7Wg/ImPc/JfBdPFBn4Ax4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.143.27.20 with SMTP id e20mr4113606wfj.256.1268543425179; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:10:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100314031037.GI25330@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20100312195727.GO10385@digitalkingdom.org> <1268429293.26304.3.camel@thomas> <121832.27670.qm@web50401.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <702226df1003131143l278d2c46lbdfcf548e0d172ff@mail.gmail.com> <925d17561003131226n5303477h1907741037570f1e@mail.gmail.com> <20100313213001.GB25330@digitalkingdom.org> <249d5b951003131447v7a09dc3aobf985dc2f4f54810@mail.gmail.com> <20100314001957.GE25330@digitalkingdom.org> <96f789a61003131811p3ad6fe66u5d0f4d0f1eeb4b22@mail.gmail.com> <20100314031037.GI25330@digitalkingdom.org> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:10:25 -0500 Message-ID: <96f789a61003132110n46f6e616g5da18dbc42b713b6@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: cusku - say or express? From: Michael Turniansky To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 17216 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:11:09PM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote: >> I'm sorry. I'm a native English speaker, and much as I usually >> argue with Xorxes, his point is very well taken.  And >> Merriam-Webster agrees with him. > > Again: this isn't about whether he's correct as to the keyword > matching the Lojban definition; he's obviously correct, as I've said > several times.  This is about whether or not you'd rember that "a > talker" is distinct from "a sayer" consistently when using (hundreds > of) flashcards. > I say that so many of the flashcard single word glosses are so horribly bad (i.e misleading to the point of being useless) that cusku's gloss is the least of worries. I have to remember them by complete English definition, because it's impossible to do so with the glosses. --gejyspa 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.