Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LjDru-0002qG-LE for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:32:42 -0700 Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.144]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LjDrn-0002pv-7r for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:32:42 -0700 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 14so1639758qwa.58 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:32:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ASlLEop35HVPM889Nfk/4lRxyAtf7OA9Lhl6Dlj4/as=; b=jD6ivrKdGYloLmkuzkWnf6IEQKSD+QId+0nL2AiwaoS0w8NqFlUx+dZJxGGqQyAz7k TYuDcy3ZQrM81nUaLkGVvyjQUHx1jufa5dur4rBavtDXgRcomUkg+lPTx9J3J0nibzcg RmjsHezogmLl5NkX3EvWv2mlEPxU1q3yuIDUQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jB2hdBd2VSo9QLnTJzpFXAw9WsZ4v36EHgVJuqqcPLn1yGmGFCqRlRFAua2P64xcaA iDY78270fogEhadn88FpLNJeiZTNafF1vRBKwelj0vjdj0VUDPPRak0/TheX10a9Kvk8 dhkgALPDRWVsxcZ0CxCXL/RzHxjTZYdgkE+UM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.98.202 with SMTP id r10mr1835484qcn.68.1237213954169; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:32:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <0E9969FD-E780-4369-B93C-FD7A2561B753@zoominternet.net> References: <66941D44-2E0E-4A9B-8882-27FE28D2C0F4@zoominternet.net> <96f789a60903151944p381f842v388624e85ecf1f28@mail.gmail.com> <4643bbcd0903160609y36b6699dw78cf01afc17032cf@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560903160649y5a5efa2fg82b213d74deeeb81@mail.gmail.com> <0E9969FD-E780-4369-B93C-FD7A2561B753@zoominternet.net> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:32:34 -0300 Message-ID: <925d17560903160732w76db7599w365952b492f620ec@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Q about general statements From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 1422 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 468 On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Robert Baruch wrote: > > The Merriam-Webster > definition of "city" seems to imply that a city is just a large inhabited > place, and makes no mention of whose jurisdiction that city falls under. Right, it depends on whether we think of the administrative/political sense of "city" or the wider sense. After all, many cities existed long before the country they are currently in did. mu'o mi'e xorxes