[lojban-beginners] Re: "Windows Metafile Vulnerability"

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

On 1/9/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:36:21PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > On 1/9/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I prefer sucta, actually.  "bancu" is about points on a scale;
> >
> > Hmm... {bancu} is about being beyond a boundary or limit. For
> > example:
> >
> >   di'u bancu le jimte le selkei lo ka ce'u javni
> >
> >   That's beyond the limits of the game in the property of being a rule.
> >
> >   di'u jvabancu
> >
> >   That's a metarule.
>
> That's not what "metarule" means to me; to me a metarule is a rule
> about rules.  A rule can be outside the boundaries of a game without
> being a metarule; "you must be wearing blue pants" is a rule outside
> the boundaries of the game of chess, for example, but is not a
> meta-rule.

Yes. Whereas rules for forming rules are meta-rules. To keep with your
chess example, a construction system by which to design new chess
pieces, boards and rules is Meta-chess. Rules that are not merely
exterior to rules, they pertain to rules. "Meta-x" means "x about x".
That's why I thought srana would be involved.

-epkat