Re: Dao De Jing [was Re: Promoting Lojban]

[Lin Zhemin <ljm@xxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xxxx]

Mon, 22 Feb 1999, la Robin Turner(robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR) cusku di'e
> > zo robin cusku di'e
> Surely this means "The word 'Robin' says the following"?!

Ooops. A misunderstanding of "la robin." There was someone told me that
"la robin." (the one called Robin) doesn't indicate that it is this
Robin or that Robin; everyone in the world called Robin is "la robin."
So I just wanted to make it clear... Any substitution?

> {.ai .izo'o} though given the way this thread's going, I might just start writing {la lindzy}!

Oh, no. "Lin" is my family name, and "Zhemin" is my surname. So you may
call me "djy,min" (while it is invalid to write djymin).

> Both are grammatical. I like the first one best, as it seems more,
> er, Lojbanic, somehow.

Chinese people tend to use the first one. When we want to ask "Who are
you?", we do ask "You are who". However, with English influences,
people in Taiwan tend to say "Who is Robin" rather than "Robin is who"
nowadays...

> It's set to 65 characters, so the problem is with your mail server, not my mail.

Which message reader do you use? Maybe it's displayed as 65 characters
wide, but no LF (0x0A) is inserted between two lines.

> IIRC, Wangbi was a neo-Daoist and emphasised naturalness, spontaneity etc. The Han dynasty commentators
> were more into the psychophysiological practices.

Do you know who are the commentators in Han dynasty? I've no idea.
Psychophysiological (what a long word) practice is just a Chinese
tradition. Many people (even do I) practice some. However, though the
concept of some practices are from Daoism (not the religious one), the
theory is majorly based on medical books written in Han and Jin
dynasty.

> Fuzzy logic is a pretty simple idea, it's just the ramifications of the maths can be a bit tricky when you
> actually come to apply it to things like cameras and washing machines.

You mean that just applying some mathematical formula is called fuzzy
logic?

> Then it all gets mixed up. Sounds like fun.

Yeah. That's the fun of concurrent lojban society. :-)


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