From ragnarok@pobox.com Thu Sep 18 12:56:39 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: ragnarok@pobox.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 8373 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2003 19:56:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Sep 2003 19:56:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.intrex.net) (209.42.192.250) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Sep 2003 19:56:37 -0000 Received: from craig [209.42.212.114] by smtp.intrex.net (SMTPD32-7.13) id ADF959CE0028; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:56:41 -0400 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: That's mostly for spanish readers Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:56:30 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-Declude-Sender: ragnarok@pobox.com [209.42.212.114] From: "Craig" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=48763382 X-Yahoo-Profile: kreig_daniyl X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20710 >I >> have >> also learned that Eskimo has a hundred words for snow. >So does English, so what!? Lojban is cool because it can write these >words with or without spaces, mirroring itself at will on Eskimo or English. Most Eskimo languages are agglutinative, meaning that there are a theoretically infinite number of things we could call "words" that have meanings related to snow. However, most have all of two root words whose primary meaning is "snow" - one for snow that is falling, one for snow on the ground. See "The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax", which I don't have handy and won't take the time to look up as my power has failed three times in the last fifteen minutes, for a discussion of this rumor and its origins and spread. -- .kreig.daniyl. "I think that square is top of cool shape in the world" -CUBIC* cube ragnarok@pobox.com teucer@bnomic.org