Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 26 May 2007 14:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hs43K-00082C-0L for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 14:43:58 -0700 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.230]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hs43H-000825-F7 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 14:43:57 -0700 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id t11so833301wxc for ; Sat, 26 May 2007 14:43:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=REDeYIc28Q3GwMzIBFBJNr4iy6NCTLr/khdjUiCSINLoDJhWOxSvcVeLdo5jmBhr/FBmsDGBKU9Tyh26poVP2oRMMq7Eg0JUQO6XXFrKDvczE0gk3GEgFYOOcVarCgfOACR41YUCo9SNeO/VeDayu2CvwEjMPmQN7UhdfM0Xsww= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=DgWZLlCwnN86KypT2+OzjBE1HAOFyea8WtRG2aO95Ro4784M5UlBZLy5W/S7hoUHiSXNj9wnEhOw9w3YNHZvrUCtrTOLBWOsY9NHhyQad/bu1W4b3WrT8lDHayvWQ0kCyS/sIoz1305Pw8KUpmR3hqE91zaU0SlKyZYQLI1qrpU= Received: by 10.70.48.15 with SMTP id v15mr6162569wxv.1180215829302; Sat, 26 May 2007 14:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.9.19 with HTTP; Sat, 26 May 2007 14:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2f91285f0705261443l24bfdaceg6187920ca7286aec@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 22:43:49 +0100 From: "Vid Sintef" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: {sutra tavla + ...} In-Reply-To: <23dc8c770705260847k6632ad54q6cec11de90681d9a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_95616_10927912.1180215829256" References: <2f91285f0705260825m41ab01e1uf9eab937f6f82dd8@mail.gmail.com> <23dc8c770705260847k6632ad54q6cec11de90681d9a@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 4714 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: picos.picos@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 1436 ------=_Part_95616_10927912.1180215829256 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 5/26/07, Karl Naylor wrote: > > [...] it sacrifices precision in favour of speaking quickly and > without excess verbal baggage. [...] I would resolve {sutra tavla pendo} > based > on context, as I imagine other Lojbanists would. Sure, tanru's inherent ambiguity shouldn't be a bad thing. Rather it must have been making Lojban more practicable for human conversation. ------=_Part_95616_10927912.1180215829256 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 5/26/07, Karl Naylor <karl.org@gmail.com> wrote:
[...] it sacrifices precision in favour of speaking quickly and
without excess verbal baggage. [...]  I would resolve {sutra tavla pendo} based
on context, as I imagine other Lojbanists would.

Sure, tanru's inherent ambiguity shouldn't be a bad thing. Rather it must have been making Lojban more practicable for human conversation.
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