From jcowan@reutershealth.com Sat Aug 31 16:15:45 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 31 Aug 2002 23:15:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 72436 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2002 23:15:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 31 Aug 2002 23:15:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Aug 2002 23:15:44 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA17852; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:26:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200208312326.TAA17852@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:12:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] dictionary - which words? To: phma@webjockey.net (Pierre Abbat) Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:12:22 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: <0208311908380E.03340@neofelis> from "Pierre Abbat" at Aug 31, 2002 07:08:38 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 15329 Pierre Abbat scripsit: > ctelr zei xasybakni is a Steller-sea cow, as opposed to a Steller sea-cow. I > don't know what a Steller-sea cow would be, besides a Steller sea-cow, but it > was a sea-cow, not a cow. Not necessarily; it is permissible to omit ke's and bo's when constructing lujvo. If it were a tanru, you'd be correct. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Assent may be registered by a signature, a handshake, or a click of a computer mouse transmitted across the invisible ether of the Internet. Formality is not a requisite; any sign, symbol or action, or even willful inaction, as long as it is unequivocally referable to the promise, may create a contract. --_Specht v. Netscape_