From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Wed Jun 2 12:12:06 1993 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 1 Jun 1993 20:11:43 -0400 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4402; Tue, 01 Jun 93 20:10:49 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 6630; Tue, 01 Jun 93 20:12:08 EDT Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 12:12:06 GMT+1200 Reply-To: Chris Handley Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Handley Organization: University of Otago Subject: Re: how to say X-To: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: Message-ID: Colin writes: > The fact that you give the example of "looking through my files" disturbs >me, because it suggests that you are thinking at the level of words. "Look >through [files]" is an *utterly* different concept from "look through [a >window or a telescope]" and is no way germane to the argument. > I think that what we are seeing here are deficiencies in English not in Lojban. That fact that we are forced to (over)use the word "seeing" in a variety of totally different senses shows that English lacks the fundamental nuances that Lojban expresses easily (if you _see_ what I mean (%} ). ====================================================================== Chris Handley chandley@otago.ac.nz Dept of Computer Science Ph (+64) 3-479-8499 University of Otago Fax (+64) 3-479-8577 Dunedin, NZ ______________________________________________________________________ The light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off to conserve power.