From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu Dec 29 13:26:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 33361 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2005 21:26:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m27.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Dec 2005 21:26:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Dec 2005 21:26:52 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Es5IQ-0001uz-EB for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:26:50 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Es5HG-0001rw-GR; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:25:42 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:25:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Es5Go-0001rQ-Ia for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:25:10 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Es5Go-0001rJ-Ak for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:25:10 -0800 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:25:10 -0800 Message-ID: <20051229212510.GM4222@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040908234642.GD24315@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040909170919.GH24315@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040909172648.GE29883@skunk.reutershealth.com> <20051229071823.GO5289@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <43B41CDB.9020608@ropine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43B41CDB.9020608@ropine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-archive-position: 10970 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -3.5 (---) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Umm, mrilu's kind of broken. X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=ZcN5uOeO01yFCeieucwWFCxJ-cl-w5gPAXytPzTal69OVhlTgQ X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 25368 On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:28:59PM -0500, Seth Gordon wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:26:48PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > > > >>Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > >> > >> > >>>So we have a sender, and a location of the sender, and the > >>>recipient, but not the location of the recipient? > >> > >>I think x3 is the destination address, not the recipient. > >>Consider letters to Santa Claus or junk mail addressed to > >>"Occupant": they don't really have recipients. > > How would you translate: "I sent God a letter by sticking a note > into the Western Wall"? I'd try to avoid it, actually. :-) > The Wall seems more like the delivery system (x5) than the > recipient's address (x3), especially since the recipient is > omnipresent, but then where do you stick "la cevni" into the > sentence? I wouldn't use mrilu at all; mrilu is about transmitting things between address nodes in a network. mi benji le notci la cevni le stici bitmu lo makfa -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.