From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Mar 12 11:20:43 2010 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NqAPb-0007HW-56 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:20:43 -0800 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:20:43 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: cusku - say or express? Message-ID: <20100312192042.GN10385@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <925d17561003120510w5268cea2sdbf61cc89932839d@mail.gmail.com> <20100312183050.GJ10385@digitalkingdom.org> <925d17561003121116t634e3b47xe5e4105e225ba491@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: <925d17561003121116t634e3b47xe5e4105e225ba491@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:16:02PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Robin Lee Powell > wrote: > > For purposes other than flashcard memorization, it doesn't > > matter: the place structure speaks (hah!) for itself. > > I agree with the last part. For anyone who pays attention to the > place structure, the keyword is fairly irrelevant. For those who > just like to memorize keywords, "express" is a bad keyword for > "cusku", because you don't use "cusku" in the contexts where you > would use "express" in English, you use it in the contexts where > you would use "say" in English. Again: without context, "say" and "talk" are too close for flashcards; I can't keep them distinguished. "express" will do well enough; if you have a better suggestion, make it, but I *can* *not* use "say" and "talk" as distinct keywords for flashcard purposes; they're too close in my brain, and other people have said the same thing. -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/