From pycyn@aol.com Tue Jul 24 08:12:37 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 24 Jul 2001 15:12:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 60973 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2001 14:29:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 24 Jul 2001 14:29:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r04.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.100) by mta1 with SMTP; 24 Jul 2001 14:29:02 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31.9.) id r.da.97a92c1 (16335) for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:28:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:28:48 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Length competition (Re: from the classics) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_da.97a92c1.288ee020_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10531 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 8888 --part1_da.97a92c1.288ee020_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 7/23/2001 10:21:41 PM Central Daylight Time, nicholas@uci.edu writes: > Btw, PC, now that I get the joke, I think it would be both paedagogically > and Lojbanically appropriate if you inserted the 'I sense that...' > Well, I like Ractuc's laconic version, which is technically an observative. Adding something to Cribes' wouldn't bother me. Classics of this sort of thing: at least a couple of centuries old, probably moe but we don't get a lot of material of this sort from earlier Glad to hear 'em, since I am trying to develop a style for these. --part1_da.97a92c1.288ee020_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 7/23/2001 10:21:41 PM Central Daylight Time,
nicholas@uci.edu writes:


Btw, PC, now that I get the joke, I think it would be both paedagogically
and Lojbanically appropriate if you inserted the 'I sense that...'


Well, I like Ractuc's laconic version, which is technically an observative.  
Adding something to Cribes' wouldn't bother me.

<It's your piece, not truly archival (I thought 'from the classics' meant
you dug this up from Lojban List while I was away), correct? >

Classics of this sort of thing: at least a couple of centuries old, probably
moe but we don't get a lot of material of this sort from earlier

<In which
case, there were a couple of stylistic (not grammatical) thinks I didn't
like; if I get time (hmpf) I'll get back to you.>

Glad to hear 'em, since I am trying to develop a style for these. --part1_da.97a92c1.288ee020_boundary--