From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Jan 20 14:50:22 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:50:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H8P1y-0002b8-F7 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:49:56 -0800 Received: from web81312.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.199.128]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H8P1n-0002ao-22 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:49:47 -0800 Received: (qmail 57308 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Jan 2007 22:49:32 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=BvOsnY/CVlAyV4h2iFvyKbCoLhxKqC2KKNWtwzVXZZDgX0cwZDsAZbwzktZeb9zSrGHlSoO2c/mvh5SIZo/IfuF01WjVWjp7YwYE5cNvPM4D0h+UmQustWDpFQSKentnzX/zIXRf07wOGyy2fB490BP5yo3wuvtwePZ4tK2CnBI=; X-YMail-OSG: 4YRRBA0VM1kSWQ2xqAbaYEifY8wf7TgJSp3MirONHVZ7rf0B9o4bIok8n1KeiWgdBASm7SSLLyMBZb6P1sS.JrbQk1ufMNl2DDi6xSWH13wLSLh0GzQ- Received: from [70.237.232.248] by web81312.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:49:32 PST Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:49:32 -0800 (PST) From: John E Clifford Subject: [lojban] Re: quest/search/sisku To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20070120223532.GB21920@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <99963.55165.qm@web81312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -6 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 13549 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: clifford-j@sbcglobal.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Well, I don't much like it either, but what do you see as wrong with {mi sisku lo ka be a holy grail/black knight [no time to figure this out] lo romei}? The assumption of the gloss is, presumably, that the only way to find that property is to find something that has it. It is a dodge around intensional contexts. --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > There doesn't seem to be any word that's good for "I'm going to > search the whole world for The Holy Grail" or "I'm going to search > the countryside for The Black Knight" or whatever. > > I honestly can't think of satisfying ways to fill sisku for either > of these, and there's no other good word. Suggestions? > > -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. > > 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.