Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:16:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711121616.LAA07570@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral Subject: Re: Problems with Abstraction To: Lojban List Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 596 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Nov 12 11:16:46 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU la .and. cusku di'e > Definitely. I hear it quite often & it causes a double-take. Wow. > Indeed, I'm surprised that you're surprised: I thought that > it was the widespread existence of "All that flows is not > water" speakers, filtered via Horn's book, that was in large > part responsible for the analogous Lojban rule. It may be so. What I know of Horn's book is filtered through the negation chapter, which is mostly lojbab's. I've never read the book itself. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban