Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 229 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2003 12:36:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Jun 2003 12:36:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Jun 2003 12:36:07 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Sc9e-000567-00; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:35:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:35:10 -0400 To: sshiskom Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: mumym problem Message-ID: <20030618123510.GL2095@ccil.org> References: <20030618112240.GD2095@ccil.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20168 Content-Length: 618 Lines: 16 sshiskom scripsit: > I disagree. One difficulty of 5x5 is that one wants to make > a query consists of such-and-such letters, but one cannot > recollect an appropriate word. That's why English version of > 5x5 enforces query words to be scrabble-sane. Ah. In that case, why not require queries to be known gismu? -- 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