Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 8 Nov 1993 11:03:57 -0500 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 8 Nov 1993 11:03:53 -0500 Message-Id: <199311081603.AA05501@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8758; Mon, 08 Nov 93 11:03:41 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 0876; Mon, 08 Nov 93 11:03:30 EDT Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 11:01:22 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Eaton X-To: nsn@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Mon Nov 8 06:01:22 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET #garlic why not sunga #ermine You did skaprxermino, while the Spanish vowel is 'a' vs 'e'. was there a reason? My etymology notes in the dictionary seem to favor 'e'. Of course it also says that an ermine is a 'stoat', from ME 'stote'. #predisposed You are grasping for a concept, but I'm not sure how it differs from 'innate'. There seems to be some sense that an innate ACTION is something different than an innate STATE or PROPERTY, but I'm not sure what it is. Some modifiers that may be helpful might include cnano, rarna, no'e xlura tarti (is a predisposition a behavior or can it result in a single type of action - i.e. are lemmings jumping off a cliff a predisposition in the sense you want - it is NOT something that thet do all the time as a general pattern of behavior. Hmm. Maybe it is a rarna xlura or a jinzi xlura, which suggest that such an inclination can be overcome. lojbab