Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:48:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JHUjL-00032h-SN for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:48:44 -0800 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.226]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JHUjD-000322-7a for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:48:43 -0800 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so1595714nze.1 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:48:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=6OI2C3jWRJEatW/HhThlh8aZ+2neREgSkJFFpn938Uc=; b=voH9CawgPXMUBSaxGMx529KqD2p6V/ydiKIciKwTpUXSbTOZ68Y/DS/FU/2hCc/A//kMlP394eFUdQkAe1cTZkogvVeFpOPpMigbiCE/GZxwzAe0u2cegeSy9yYbnEKjYjLODYifyQalB8P5euOTaJuew75K2GjYLz3in+YbomE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=QlDe+BlK2KLsRY1YnJ4/OmotK3W6MKI2deCGwvjmZzU+3FaP00izBOhiLpatJC7+R+p4iIty6h74LdpovHLcL+pQ3bTP8lZ9G4WudSRZPVd7EucczKCtbB92UPdq79FveH7N7lVwsRGcBbXTrd0hMncTmLh3iEoR35kTipkQH78= Received: by 10.110.10.11 with SMTP id 11mr4252623tij.13.1201052908721; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:48:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.110.41.5 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:48:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <97f5058c0801221748u4d035363if947e6003c0ee51@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:48:28 +0800 From: Penguino To: lojban-beginners Subject: [lojban-beginners] "long" and "short" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_6547_1095543.1201052908712" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 280 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: spheniscine@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 872 ------=_Part_6547_1095543.1201052908712 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline How does one distinguish between long as in spatial dimensions, and long as in time? The Chinese have two words for these concepts, and this ambiguity in English is often a source of confusion ("Will the sausage be long?" to a waiter, for instance. [zo'o]). ------=_Part_6547_1095543.1201052908712 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline How does one distinguish between long as in spatial dimensions, and long as in time? The Chinese have two words for these concepts, and this ambiguity in English is often a source of confusion ("Will the sausage be long?" to a waiter, for instance. [zo'o]).
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