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From: Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net>
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Subject: [lojban] Re: spofu skami
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:27:20PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 05:52:12PM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> > Bearing in mind that the word "nerve" long predates our current
> > understanding of the processing in a neural system, nirna would NOT be
> > limited to such a scientific definition.  Lojban gismu are generally
> > defined as broadly as possible (for Jordan - the "metaphor" cues are
> > an attempt to force breadth of meaning - not polysemy).
> >=20
> > I think that a nerve/nirna is merely a relaying component of an
> > information system which transmits signals from one or more sources to
> > one or more destinations (possibly with conditions based on the
> > signals received).  It is not even clear that the directionality
> > implied by "source" and "destination" is necessary.
> >=20
> > Under this broader definition, a transformer, a tunnel diode, and a
> > mechanical relay are also nirna.
>=20
> I'm fine with all that, but if that's the case, the definition needs to
> be fixed, because it's got the phrase "body-part" in it, for crying out
> loud.

=2Eie

> And again, cans with string, talking, telephone wires, etc, etc, all
> fit.

Yeah.  What's with this overlap between nirna and cukta?

--=20
Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
                                     sei la mark. tuen. cusku

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