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Re: "ivory tower gazing" [was: Re: [lojban] lojban audial



In a message dated 3/28/2001 2:19:22 PM Central Standard Time,
graywyvern@hotmail.com writes:


<>From: And Rosta <arosta@uclan.ac.uk>
     li'o
>I am interested in Lojban only for the scope it affords for ivory-tower
>navel
>gazing.
>

STASU KATNA>


Stew cut?  I don't get it.  I can make some sense of {stasu te katna}, though
its connection with philosophical argle-bargle is not too clear.  Taking
philsophy as a hotch-potch (a stew of miscellaneous, often left-over or
slightly skank, ingredients) is also not a position I would reject outright.  
But then what does the cut do?
Or maybe from {katna lo stasu}, something related to nailing Jell-o to a
tree, a totally fruitless activity?  But, as I have said, the mucking about
has a very practical aim and usually a practical result -- clarity if nothing
else and that not to be contemned in a logical language.