From robin@bilkent.edu.tr Thu Mar 13 00:34:05 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:34:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18tO9v-0003vi-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:33:52 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C7F321FB for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:33:13 +0200 (EET) Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (ppp106.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.106]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078EF31FAF for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:33:12 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <3E7042B9.4030709@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:35:05 +0200 From: robin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: spofu skami References: <200303130112.48842.phma@webjockey.net> <20030313073712.GV25165@digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 X-archive-position: 4458 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > Therefore you are not able to nervely-get Valfendi. (I really dislike > the metaphoric usage of nirna being in the gismu list). I don't think the problem is in the meaning, but in the phrasing of the definition. I think of a nirna as being some kind of communication strand, whether it be biological or electronic. But maybe I'm just rationalising here. robin.tr -- "The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake." - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin