Return-Path: Received: from kantti.helsinki.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rdSoy-00001oC; Sun, 12 Feb 95 03:09 EET Received: from fiport.funet.fi (fiport.funet.fi [128.214.109.150]) by kantti.helsinki.fi (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id DAA23473 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 03:09:51 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (MAILER@SEARN) by FIPORT.FUNET.FI (PMDF V4.3-13 #2494) id <01HMXZ720MOG004AV8@FIPORT.FUNET.FI>; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 01:03:48 +0200 (EET) Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 1006; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 13:44:24 +0100 Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 12:46:04 +0000 From: ucleaar Subject: Re: ago24 & replies In-reply-to: (Your message of Fri, 10 Feb 95 15:02:45 EST.) Sender: Lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Reply-to: ucleaar Message-id: <01HMXZ80XYFM004AV8@FIPORT.FUNET.FI> X-Envelope-to: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 618 Lines: 15 > > > Good! The move to the heqad of the highest prenex is simply the > > What the **** is a heqad? It looks Arabic, & hasn't made it into the > > OED (1st ed). > I take it to mean "head", as "q" and "a" are adjacent on the QWERTY keyboard. This is an interesting method of word-formation I've not previously encountered. You want a word meaning "head of prenex", so you take "head" and flail about in the appropriate region of the keyboard. That's logicians for you: if ASCII doesn't allow them to douse the text in small greek characters, then other methods for sowing confusion must suffice. I like it. --- And