From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Feb 27 08:39:37 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_4); 27 Feb 2003 16:39:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 31815 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2003 16:39:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Feb 2003 16:39:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2003 16:39:36 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18oR4K-0000MM-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:39:36 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18oR4B-0000M2-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:39:27 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:39:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [65.246.141.36] (helo=mail.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18oR44-0000Lt-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:39:20 -0800 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA01904; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:36:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200302271636.LAA01904@mail.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:39:18 -0500 Subject: [lojban] Re: Nick will be with you shortly To: xod@thestonecutters.net Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:39:18 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20030227110939.K90896-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> from "Invent Yourself" at Feb 27, 2003 11:19:18 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 4193 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: John Cowan Reply-To: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 18659 Invent Yourself scripsit: > Therefore it falls in the category of our ce'u changes: we have set > forth clear principles for the use of ce'u from now on, but older Lojban > must be read with the knowledge that the modern principles weren't yet > formulated, and it must be read more forgivingly. This is a sine qua non of any acceptable solution: even on Flag Day when the rafsi assignments were changed (the last really drastic change), we had to adopt this interpretive convention. -- It was impossible to inveigle John Cowan Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Into offering the slightest apology http://www.reutershealth.com For his Phenomenology. --W. H. Auden, from "People" (1953)