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 m2HAYyi-00007eC; Thu, 7 Feb 136 09:11 EET Message-Id: Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI by FINHUTC.hut.fi (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5881; Wed, 15 Mar 95 17:21:56 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 5878; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 17:21:55 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7511; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 16:17:49 +0100 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 10:06:47 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: On {lo} and existence X-To: Lojban List To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199503150437.AA19229@nfs2.digex.net> from "ucleaar" at Mar 14, 95 10:18:03 pm Content-Length: 692 Lines: 20 la .and. cusku di'e > it is to be worked out ("glorked", in Cowanese) > from context. To give credit where it's due, the word is due to one David Moser, who devised the following pair of sentences: 1) This sentence contains only one nonstandard English flutzpah. 2) This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context. The sentences were reprinted by Douglas Hofstadter in >Metamagical Themas<, p. 15, and from there adopted into general hacker slang, sometimes in the solecistic form "glarked". -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.