From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Mar 12 10:34:38 2010 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nq9gz-0004iK-If for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:34:37 -0800 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:34:37 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] cusku - say or express? Message-ID: <20100312183437.GK10385@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <925d17561003120510w5268cea2sdbf61cc89932839d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <925d17561003120510w5268cea2sdbf61cc89932839d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:10:37AM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Robin Lee Powell > wrote: > > > > As a minor point, I'm changing all the "cusku" keywords, because > > "cusku" is any form of expression, and "say" implies talking (which > > is tavla). > > "Say" is a better keyword for "cusku" than "express", because the x2 > of cusku is a sign, not a meaning. > > You say "thank you", you express gratitude. I don't disagree with that as a useful distinction, by the way. I was only talking about keywords for memorization purposes. -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/