Re: [lojban] Re: Umm, mrilu's kind of broken.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:28:59PM -0500, Seth Gordon wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:26:48PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> >
> >>Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> >>
> >>
> >>>So we have a sender, and a location of the sender, and the
> >>>recipient, but not the location of the recipient?
> >>
> >>I think x3 is the destination address, not the recipient.
> >>Consider letters to Santa Claus or junk mail addressed to
> >>"Occupant": they don't really have recipients.
> 
> How would you translate: "I sent God a letter by sticking a note
> into the Western Wall"?  

I'd try to avoid it, actually.  :-)

> The Wall seems more like the delivery system (x5) than the
> recipient's address (x3), especially since the recipient is
> omnipresent, but then where do you stick "la cevni" into the
> sentence?

I wouldn't use mrilu at all; mrilu is about transmitting things
between address nodes in a network.

mi benji le notci la cevni le stici bitmu lo makfa

-Robin

-- 
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"
Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/