Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI,@SEARN.SUNET.SE:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from FINHUTC.hut.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #14) id m0ozACf-0000PYC; Mon, 15 Nov 93 22:07 EET Message-Id: Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI by FINHUTC.hut.fi (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with BSMTP id 9325; Mon, 15 Nov 93 22:07:28 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 9323; Mon, 15 Nov 1993 22:07:28 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0388; Mon, 15 Nov 1993 21:06:37 +0100 Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 15:03:54 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: more Eaton, anyone? X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199311130400.AA29401@access.digex.net> from "Nick Nicholas" at Nov 13, 93 02:49:14 pm Content-Length: 594 Lines: 16 mi'e .djan. .i la nitcion. joi la xorxes. cusku di'e > #> #sortie (military) (F) sortie (G) Ausfall (S) salida > #> nu guntygunta > #Why not? > > Well, because it's not that descriptive. bandygunta, perhaps. I think that "bartu" belongs in there someplace: a sortie, as the other 3 languages show, is very explicitly an attack for the purpose of breaking >out< of something. It is not a "defensive attack", insofar as I understand what that means at all. -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.