From graywyvern@hotmail.com Fri Aug 25 13:09:15 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30156 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2000 20:09:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 25 Aug 2000 20:09:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ci.egroups.com) (10.1.2.81) by mta3 with SMTP; 25 Aug 2000 20:09:15 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: graywyvern@hotmail.com Received: from [10.1.10.126] by ci.egroups.com with NNFMP; 25 Aug 2000 20:09:15 -0000 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:09:06 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: lujvo & tanru Message-ID: <8o6jp2+39th@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 559 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 209.176.48.58 From: "michael helsem" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4055 --- In lojban@egroups.com, Invent Yourself wrote: li'o > Have I said yet that I suspect that "true" Lojbanic style might include > extremely long tanru? Perhaps it is malglico, or in any case non-Lojbanic, > to desire small words with poignancy. Perhaps the spirit of Lojban is to > achieve such shades of meaning not by relying on a huge, historical, > subtle vocabulary, but by constructing detailed nuanced tanru on the spot. gu'e fu'eju'ocu'i ba'e jetnu lobykai fu'o gi fu'e.iesai fadni bangu pilno lakne je banzu fu'o