Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 05:35:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712101035.FAA27406@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: kennings X-To: shoulson@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: O X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 652 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Dec 10 05:35:09 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU >>sea =3D whale's road / xasmabru dargu (whales use the sea to get from = >>x2 to x3 via route x4) > >This had to be commented on, because "xasmabru" is so close to the famed >"*tosmabru" of the test of the same name... which test "*xasmabru" fails. >It is indistinguishable from "xa smabru" and thus presumably must be >"xasymabru." Watchit. Oooh! I like it. Too bad it is a couple months too late for the refgram, or *tosmabru (which means nothing in Lojban - it is an example dating from TLI Loglan history) would be history. A unique to Lojban exampe that closely resembled the original word would be ideal. Maybe bnext edition %^). lojbab