From jewel@pixie.co.za Mon Dec 04 14:19:55 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: jewel@pixie.co.za X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 4 Dec 2000 22:19:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 78301 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2000 22:18:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Dec 2000 22:18:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jhb-proxy.mweb.co.za) (196.2.48.243) by mta2 with SMTP; 4 Dec 2000 22:18:23 -0000 Received: from pta-dial-196-31-185-121.mweb.co.za ([196.31.185.121]) by jhb-proxy.mweb.co.za (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0G5200CSQDY21M@jhb-proxy.mweb.co.za> for lojban@egroups.com; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:18:04 +0200 (GMT-2) Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 22:24:02 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [lojban] Expressing purpose In-reply-to: X-Sender: jewel@skami.mweb.co.za To: pycyn@aol.com Cc: lojban@egroups.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: John Leuner > > > `Oh, you wicked little thing!' cried Alice, catching up the > > kitten, and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it > > was in disgrace. > > > Nice to see another logico-mystical classic being lojbanized. But they tend > to be very hard to do (cf earlier work with an Inner Chapter from Chuangtzu) > since they play with language a lot. Better to start with some less > frolicsome (i.e., boring) cases lile Wittgenstein or Dinnyaga or Nagarjuna. I was just looking for some source material to practice my fledgling lojban on, I suppose I should look for something simpler. John