From sentto-44114-19499-1051581381-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Mon Apr 28 18:57:00 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from n5.grp.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.66.89]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19AKMY-0006s0-01 for lojban-in@lojban.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:56:54 -0700 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-19499-1051581381-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.200] by n5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 Apr 2003 01:56:23 -0000 X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 29 Apr 2003 01:56:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 97439 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2003 01:56:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Apr 2003 01:56:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2003 01:56:20 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19AKLv-0005G7-00; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:56:15 -0400 To: Jorge =?iso-8859-1?Q?Llamb=EDas?= Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20030429015615.GE12348@ccil.org> References: <20030428203758.GA99775@allusion.net> <20030428210644.20605.qmail@web20502.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030428210644.20605.qmail@web20502.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@yahoogroups.com; contact lojban-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:56:15 -0400 Subject: [lojban] Re: BPFK phpbb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 4999 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cowan@ccil.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Jorge Llamb?as scripsit: > But it _is_ a word that makes sense used anywhere: it changes the > previous word into an opposite. Isn't that how it works now, No. It changes some words into their opposites; for others, it induces contradictory negation, and for most lexical classes it means nothing at all. -- First known example of political correctness: John Cowan "After Nurhachi had united all the other http://www.reutershealth.com Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643) jcowan@reutershealth.com issued an order that the name Jurchen should --S. Robert Ramsey, be banned, and from then on, they were all _The Languages of China_ to be called Manchus." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/O10svD/Me7FAA/AG3JAA/GSaulB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/