From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Tue Jun 2 13:29:28 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Tue, 2 Jun 92 13:29 EDT Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA02981; Tue, 2 Jun 92 12:52:46 EDT Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA03911; Tue, 2 Jun 92 12:38:11 -0400 Message-Id: <9206021638.AA03911@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3676; Tue, 02 Jun 92 12:37:04 EDT Received: by UGA (Mailer R2.07) id 0494; Tue, 02 Jun 92 12:36:42 EDT Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1992 11:22:07 EDT Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Down from a duck X-To: conlang , Lojban List To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: <920602045811_72627.2647_DHJ27-3@CompuServe.COM>; from "Don Harlow" at Jun 2, 92 12:58 am Status: RO X-Status: Don Harlow complains that my Lojban word for "the process by which an acorn falls into the water and becomes a duck" omitted the falling into the water part. I was using a heuristic that says "five parts of a compound is enough". However, to demonstrate Lojban's flexibility, and also to demonstrate the Lojban aphorism lo cimni ka satci cu se jdima lo cimni ni valsi The price of infinite precision is infinite verbosity. I will create a more precise and more verbose word: cindytsijauborfaljavdatkyborbi'oru'e cindy-tsi-jau-bor-fal-jav-datky-bor-bi'o-ru'e oak seed water [hyphen] fall and duck [hyphen] become process ((oak seed) ((water fall) and (duck become))) process Still only fourteen syllables. -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban