From cowan@ccil.org Mon Dec 01 09:06:25 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 60245 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2003 17:06:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Dec 2003 17:06:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Dec 2003 17:06:20 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQrV6-000732-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:06:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:06:20 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Origins of the prim/gismu list Message-ID: <20031201170620.GA25519@mercury.ccil.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 192.190.237.100 X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21313 What is known about the origins of the Loglan prim list? Did JCB just cook up the English words out of his own head, or did he use some other resources to do so? -- Is a chair finely made tragic or comic? Is the John Cowan portrait of Mona Lisa good if I desire to see jcowan@reutershealth.com it? Is the bust of Sir Philip Crampton lyrical, www.ccil.org/~cowan epical or dramatic? If a man hacking in fury www.reutershealth.com at a block of wood make there an image of a cow, is that image a work of art? If not, why not? --Stephen Dedalus