From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Oct 21 07:49:25 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 15326 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2004 14:49:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m21.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 21 Oct 2004 14:49:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ratanakiri.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.37) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Oct 2004 14:49:25 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by ratanakiri.reutershealth.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id i9LEkvo8001516; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:46:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:49:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:49:04 -0400 To: phma@phma.hn.org Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20041021144904.GB25476@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <1E1B2BB9-2205-11D9-ACB7-003065E00134@free.fr> <20041020124625.25731.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> <20041021052652.GX12809@skunk.reutershealth.com> <200410210919.35039.phma@phma.hn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200410210919.35039.phma@phma.hn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 65.246.141.37 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: mi na zasti X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23235 Pierre Abbat scripsit: > > To refer to the fog or vapor itself, use febvi or gapci. > > bumdilnu. A fog is a cloud on the ground. That's an atmospheric fog. But one can also have a fog of insecticide, for example. -- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com jcowan@reutershealth.com [T]here is a Darwinian explanation for the refusal to accept Darwin. Given the very pessimistic conclusions about moral purpose to which his theory drives us, and given the importance of a sense of moral purpose in helping us cope with life, a refusal to believe Darwin's theory may have important survival value. --Ian Johnston