From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Fri Mar 6 13:58:17 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Fri, 6 Mar 92 13:58 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA23201; Fri, 6 Mar 92 13:26:40 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA04140; Wed, 4 Mar 92 03:16:46 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA11808; Wed, 4 Mar 92 03:16:55 EST Message-Id: <9203040816.AA11808@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 4802; Wed, 04 Mar 92 03:15:12 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 5449; Wed, 04 Mar 92 03:14:33 EST Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1992 18:13:22 +1000 Reply-To: cbmvax!uunet!MULLIAN.EE.MU.OZ.AU!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!nsn Sender: Lojban list From: cbmvax!uunet!MULLIAN.EE.MU.OZ.AU!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!nsn Subject: mu'ibo X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu X-Cc: nsn@ee.mu.oz.au To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO Folks, if we're going to change the meaning of {.imu'ibo} from {mu'i la'edi'e .i} to {.i mu'i la'edi'u}, we'd best do so now, or forever hold our peace. Lojbab: such a change would render obsolete all text written to date, but it is still early enough for us to get away with it. Should we attempt it? (For those not hip on the jargon: does "iki'ubo" mean "this is because..." (current) or "Because of this..."? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Nick Nicholas, Melbourne Uni, Australia. nsn@{munagin.ee|mundil.cs}.mu.oz.au "Despite millions of dollars of research, death continues to be this nation's number one killer" - Henry Gibson, Kentucky Fried Movie _______________________________________________________________________________