From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jul 02 22:12:26 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxGj9-0001Zs-JJ for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:12:07 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxGj6-0001Yx-AV for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:12:07 -0700 Received: from [192.168.25.19] (unknown [192.168.25.19]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E4CCE4BB for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 01:11:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: [hobyrne@gmail.com: Alphabet] Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 01:11:35 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060702215144.96228.qmail@web81304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <44A8818D.60800@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44A8818D.60800@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607030111.37968.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 11870 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:31, Hugh O'Byrne wrote: > Right.  I read that much of the basic vocabulary was designed to match > words from several major world languages, weighted by the population > that speaks that language.  It struck me as so utterly, utterly gimmicky > that I laughed out loud.  As a friend said, "when you mix all the > colours, you'll always get *brown*".  Even though I laugh at it, I > admire it, because it does embody the spirit of the language. Of course you get brown. James Cooke Brown. ;) phma 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.