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Re: [lojban] word for "www" (was: Archive location.)



On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:48:33PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Invent Yourself scripsit:
> 
> > Everyone, I've been using the word "cukta" to mean roughly: a collection
> > of documents and/or pages. I don't believe that I have yet heard an
> > argument that contradicts this by adding more restrictions to the
> > definition which are derived from the place structures, and not simply
> > induced from the stereotypical "book". 
> 
> The place structures are not enough.
> 
> Otherwise, there would be no distinguishing between any animals or plants
> (modulo the few surviving exceptions) since they all have x1 as the creature
> and x2 as its species/type.

x1 of bakni, sure, is a creature, but more specifically it has to be a
bovine creature.

x2 of bakni, sure, is a species, but more specifically, it has to be a
species of bovine.

Same for the rest of them.

-- 
Jay Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>
Think about Python, and whitespace. -- Larry Wall