From tk1@despammed.com Wed Jul 23 08:07:37 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: tk1@despammed.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 55055 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2003 15:07:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 Jul 2003 15:07:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n7.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.91) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Jul 2003 15:07:36 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.140] by n7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Jul 2003 15:07:36 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:07:34 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: use of ko'a Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <000e01c3510b$9b5c1860$fe7aa8c0@ONEOF> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 466 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "c1tk" X-Originating-IP: 165.21.154.15 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=134553381 X-Yahoo-Profile: c1tk X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20447 [And Rosta:] > Re tolylogji, it is a basic principle of Lojban design that > concision > is inversely proportional to precision, and ellipsis [Stefan "1of3" Koch:] > That's obviously wrong. Imagine a novell that starts with "They ran > around > the corner. ...". And you read one and a half pages before you know > who THEY mi cusku ijobo mi tavla, i ro tu cu bajra i vlavlas, lo lujvo cu tordu, i selcla lo tanru, i tinbe fa ko le jdacmujva!