Message-ID: <345F6A54.6645@locke.ccil.org> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 13:32:52 -0500 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: Problems with Abstraction References: <199711041709.MAA26885@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 433 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Nov 04 13:32:52 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - la .and. cusku di'e [much correct Lojbanery snipped] > It's like "All that > glitters is not gold", which is fine for many many English > speakers though not for me (I wd have to say "Not all that > glitters is gold"). Really? I'm, as Colin Fine says, gobsmacked. There are people who can say "All that flows is not water", outside poetry? -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban