Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from FINHUTC.hut.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0qF4rD-00001WC; Sat, 18 Jun 94 21:11 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI by FINHUTC.hut.fi (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0156; Sat, 18 Jun 94 21:11:26 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 0152; Sat, 18 Jun 1994 21:11:26 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0722; Sat, 18 Jun 1994 20:09:33 +0200 Date: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 14:12:11 EDT Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: Jorge Llambias Subject: Re: sumti categories X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 715 Lines: 18 la lojbab (to noi fasnu ianai toi) cusku di'e > NO! I mean that I, the person AM an event. When you respond to me, you are > responding to me as a person as well as to me as an event. But responding to you as a person means that I'm responding to something you said or did. Responding to you as an event, means that I'm responding to you happening, whatever that means. (From what you say, "I happen" means something like "I began to exist, am existing, and will cease to exist".) Which of those two meanings is expressed by {mi spuda do}? > Thus (waxing > philosophically), Lojban expresses nicely the idea of "two lives intersecting" > as the events which are those lives interact. Could you show how? Jorge