From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Jun 04 10:20:44 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 24380 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2003 17:20:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Jun 2003 17:20:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.36) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Jun 2003 17:20:43 -0000 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 NAA27827; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:17:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:23:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:23:16 -0400 To: Invent Yourself Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: I saw three kinds of dogs Message-ID: <20030604172316.GE24636@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <20030603203013.41849.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> <20030604105417.I53568-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030604105417.I53568-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20081 Invent Yourself scripsit: > For most people, there can be any number of stereotypical dogs, and each > one they refer to as le'e gerku. For you, le'e gerku is the stereotype > itself, of which there can only be one. (Let's not get distracted with the > boundary cases.) I think there is only one le'e gerku for a given speaker at a given moment, but it can vary across speakers and across time. -- Eric Raymond is the Margaret Mead John Cowan of the Open Source movement. jcowan@reutershealth.com --Lloyd A. Conway, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan amazon.com review http://www.reutershealth.com