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Re: [lojban] quest/search/sisku
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- Subject: Re: [lojban] quest/search/sisku
- From: John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:49:32 -0800 (PST)
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Well, I don't much like it either, but what do you see as wrong with {mi sisku lo ka be a holy
grail/black knight [no time to figure this out] lo romei}? The assumption of the gloss is,
presumably, that the only way to find that property is to find something that has it. It is a
dodge around intensional contexts.
--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> There doesn't seem to be any word that's good for "I'm going to
> search the whole world for The Holy Grail" or "I'm going to search
> the countryside for The Black Knight" or whatever.
>
> I honestly can't think of satisfying ways to fill sisku for either
> of these, and there's no other good word. Suggestions?
>
> -Robin
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