Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Tue, 11 Feb 92 14:44 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA24620; Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:34:09 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA02745; Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:16:07 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA28086; Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:15:52 EST Message-Id: <9202111815.AA28086@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 2188; Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:12:08 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 5597; Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:11:55 EST Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 12:17:12 EST Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Tall/deep X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: <9202111444.AA01361@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>; from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Feb 11, 92 9:40 am Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Tue Feb 11 14:45:09 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN mi pu cusku di'e > >(Whether you call something "tall" or "deep" in English is a matter of > >whether you are standing at the bottom or the top of it. Latin "altus" > >makes no distinction, and Lojban "condi" can mean "tall".) la mark. clsn. cusku di'e > What's wrong with {barda} or {barda beleka gapru} or some such? Probably nothing. I just happen to like the idea of using "condi" for "tall". > My mother, > remembering her high school or college Latin, points out that "From the > depths I call out to thee" in Psalms uses something like "De profundus" > (apologies for mangling Latin, I didn't listen closely for the form, just > the root). "De profundis clamavi te, Domine". Right. But "fundus" (the root of "profundis") is tricky too. The "fundus" of something is the part of it furthest from the opening. For example, the "fundus" of the stomach is the part furthest from the esophageal entrance, which happens to be at the bottom when you are standing up -- making the "fundus" the top! Followups to latin-list. :-) -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban