From pycyn@aol.com Sun Apr 01 15:18:28 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_0_1); 1 Apr 2001 22:18:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 5423 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2001 22:18:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Apr 2001 22:18:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m05.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Apr 2001 22:18:26 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v29.14.) id r.5f.131ada67 (4408) for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:18:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <5f.131ada67.27f90317@aol.com> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:17:59 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Random lojban questions/annoyances (nu subthread) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_5f.131ada67.27f90317_boundary" Content-Disposition: Inline X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 6359 --part1_5f.131ada67.27f90317_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Amazingly, all the various species NU, maybe with the exception of {su'u}, had rather precise definitions when they were being created . Much of that has fallen into disuetude over the years (sometimes days) of sage, however, to the point that someone recently got indignant with me for pointing out that what he had marked as a process was pretty certainly an activity instead (or maybe it was the other way round). At some point, however, the differences between events, properties and propositions do make a real difference -- though maybe not in some of the more common places available for sumti at the root of which they lie. Do we really want a boring technical discussion on this one just now? --part1_5f.131ada67.27f90317_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Amazingly, all the various species NU, maybe with the exception of {su'u},
had rather precise definitions when they were being created .  Much of that
has fallen into disuetude over the years (sometimes days) of sage, however,
to the point that someone recently got indignant with me for pointing out
that what he had marked as a process was pretty certainly an activity instead
(or maybe it was the other way round).  At some point, however, the
differences between events, properties and propositions do make a real
difference -- though maybe not in some of the more common places available
for sumti at the root of which they lie.
Do we really want a boring technical discussion on this one just now? --part1_5f.131ada67.27f90317_boundary--