From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Mar 13 13:30:02 2010 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NqYuH-00020O-UK for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:30:02 -0800 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:30:01 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: cusku - say or express? Message-ID: <20100313213001.GB25330@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20100312183050.GJ10385@digitalkingdom.org> <925d17561003121116t634e3b47xe5e4105e225ba491@mail.gmail.com> <20100312192042.GN10385@digitalkingdom.org> <925d17561003121145x53ade2a3sdf2c6d443cce8854@mail.gmail.com> <20100312195727.GO10385@digitalkingdom.org> <925d17561003121311m422cf3bbjf82ee369a9b6c33b@mail.gmail.com> <1268429293.26304.3.camel@thomas> <121832.27670.qm@web50401.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <702226df1003131143l278d2c46lbdfcf548e0d172ff@mail.gmail.com> <925d17561003131226n5303477h1907741037570f1e@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: <925d17561003131226n5303477h1907741037570f1e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:26:44PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Jonathan Jones > wrote: > > > > I do feel that I should put my two cents in at this point. > > > > In the Smart.fm lesson, the keywords at this point are: cusku - > > express (Changed from "say" by Robin. Approved by me for reasons > > of semantic confusion which I've already expressed.) > > How come you had "say" in the first place? "Express" is the bad > keyword that the gi'uste has. Whoever decided to use "say" instead > had the right understanding of "cusku". I'm not sure where you're confused. Only two native English speakers have spoken up on this issue, me and Jonathan, and we've both said "say/talk is too confusing for flashcard use; one of them has to change". -Rabin -- 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/