From - Thu Jan 30 11:48:58 1997
Reply-To: "Jorge J. Llambias" <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR>
Date: Thu Jan 30 11:48:58 1997
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From: "Jorge J. Llambias" <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR>
Subject:      Re: _The Linguistics Wars_
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> > On the other hand,
> >the quick translation:
> >
> >        la spiros smadi la ekslaks
> >
> >would be utterly sensless no matter what the context.
>
> Why?  is it not possible to give a name to a "fact".

Giving the name la ekslaks to the fact le du'u la patniksn
cu pilno la ekslaks le nu ebu gacri lei py titnanba would be very
bad translating. Ok, I should have said that the translation
would be either utterly senseless or an attempt against all
the rules of linguistic good manners.

Jorge