Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 19:35:35 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 19:55:58 +0000 To: John Cowan From: Colin Fine Subject: Re: Problems with Abstraction In-Reply-To: <878672601.1127608.1@listserv.cuny.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Version 3.03a X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1000 X-From-Space-Date: Thu Dec 18 19:35:42 1997 X-From-Space-Address: drv.cbc.com!colin@cbgate.cbc.com vecu'u le notci po'u <878672601.1127608.1@listserv.cuny.edu> la John Cowan cu cusku di'e >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? .i mi go'e ca ma .i na morji .i ja'a go'e sa'ecu'i .i zoi gy Everybody is not here yet gy cafne -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Colin Fine 66 High Ash, Shipley, W Yorks. BD18 1NE, UK | | Tel: 01274 592696/0976 635354 e-mail: colin@kindness.demon.co.uk | | "Don't just do something! Stand there!" | | - from 'Behold the Spirit' (workshop) | -----------------------------------------------------------------------