From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Mar 13 16:19:57 2010 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NqbYj-0006bg-1L for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:19:57 -0800 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:19:57 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: cusku - say or express? Message-ID: <20100314001957.GE25330@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <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> <20100313213001.GB25330@digitalkingdom.org> <249d5b951003131447v7a09dc3aobf985dc2f4f54810@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: <249d5b951003131447v7a09dc3aobf985dc2f4f54810@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:47:36PM -0500, MorphemeAddict wrote: > Robin, > How many native English speakers have no problem at all with the say/talk > distinction? I don't. Maybe you and Jonathan are the only exceptions, and > it makes no sense to change a keyword for the sake of two people out of a > much larger community. I can't speak for people who haven't spoken up. Now it's 2 to 1. :) Feel free to get other people to post. I'm really curious, though: You're saying that if one flashcard say "a sayer" and another said "a talker", you wouldn't find that confusing at all? Those seem obviously distinct to you? Regardless, please see my other post for a better suggestion (adding the whole place structure in). > I prefer 'say' for "cusku". (or even better: 'cusku' for > "cusku".)   Erm. You do understand that we're *only* talking about flashcards, right? We're not talking about changing anything official, or what's in jbovlaste, or anything, just flashcards. A flashcard that said "cusku" on one side and "cusku" on the other would not be helpful. -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/