From graywyvern@hotmail.com Fri Jul 28 13:19:15 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15919 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2000 20:19:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 28 Jul 2000 20:19:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.236.141) by mta1 with SMTP; 28 Jul 2000 20:19:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 73191 invoked by uid 0); 28 Jul 2000 20:19:15 -0000 Message-ID: <20000728201915.73190.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.176.48.19 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:19:15 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.176.48.19] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: vacation Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:19:15 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "michael helsem" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 3710 >From: pycyn@aol.com li'o > that does not mean that nothing brodas or any other such >negative thing. In order words, "zi'o broda" denies that when "broda" lacks x1, there is anything missing necessary to the relationship. >So, means something like "y has a >sense of humor about z" (i.e., y has found -- or would find >--something >funny But i thought "xajmi" meant "is funny", not "has a sense of humor about". When did that one change? > It might be that the negative use of so much put foreward by the >joking maikl might seriously be more useful than the official use, whose >meaning -- if not function -- can be covered in other ways. "ckasu" covers "zi'o xajmi" adequately, of course... But alternative ways to say the same thing are very useful to have, all the same. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com