From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Jul 17 11:18:58 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 63641 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2003 18:18:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 17 Jul 2003 18:18:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.36) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Jul 2003 18:18:58 -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 OAA28490; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:14:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:17:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:17:32 -0400 To: Craig Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] describing people Message-ID: <20030717181732.GY24731@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 20378 Craig scripsit: > How do you ask what someone looks like? I don't want the answer to be "a > fish" but rather a description of the person's appearance. I first thought of "ko'a simlu ma", but "ko'a selski fo ma" would be more precise. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Humpty Dump Dublin squeaks through his norse Humpty Dump Dublin hath a horrible vorse But for all his kinks English / And his irismanx brogues Humpty Dump Dublin's grandada of all rogues. --Cousin James