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From: John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [lojban] Re: railgun
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When you learn elementary logic, it may be
worthwhile. On the other hand, the word is still
excessively long for its use class and (as noted)
not really about "gun."  I'm glad to kn0ow you
have found uses for most of the places you gave
it, but did you need so much luggage to get those
places?  (rhetorical question with the obvious
naswer "No").

--- Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:31:17PM -0700, John
> E Clifford wrote:
> > Relevance?  The issue is about ugly,
> excessively long (and
> > inaccurate for all that) words, not about
> what places you give
> > them and then use.
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> Whatever.  When you've used the language
> substantially, come back
> and then we can have this discussion again.
> 
> -Robin
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