From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Thu Oct 7 10:01:35 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 6 Oct 1993 16:57:24 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 6 Oct 1993 16:56:57 -0400 Message-Id: <199310062056.AA21222@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7998; Wed, 06 Oct 93 16:55:10 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 1071; Wed, 06 Oct 93 16:57:53 EDT Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 10:01:35 GMT+1200 Reply-To: Chris Handley Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Handley Organization: University of Otago Subject: Re: Lean Lujvo and fat gismu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: John Cowan (again): >1) mi klama fi le frasygu'e > I come from France > >2) mi cliva le frasygu'e > I leave France. > This is precisely the distinction we (as academics in New Zealand, a country where everybody else is a long way away from us) often need to make. When we get applications for positions, we can usually split them into two (three?, see my .sig) groups -- those that wish to come to us, and those that want to leave where they are, precisely the distinction drawn by John above. (I leave it to your imagination to decide which group we concentrate on.) ====================================================================== 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 ______________________________________________________________________ There are three types of Computer Scientist: those who can count and those who can't.