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Re: [lojban] Help with fiction
- To: "lojban@onelist.com" <lojban@egroups.com>
- Subject: Re: [lojban] Help with fiction
- From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 16:42:28 -0400
- In-reply-to: Message from "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org> of "Sat, 20 May 2000 15:16:47 EDT." <4.2.2.20000520151152.00af9a30@127.0.0.1>
>>{mipri girzu}? {sivni girzu}?
>
>You have presented reasons why they are not necessarily a tradition
>"cabal". With Lojban, they have decide just what they are trying to say.
Why? It's a name. If I call myself "la carmi gusni misno", a
literalist translation of 'Robin', to wit, "Bright Fame", I am _not_
nescessarily saying that I am a bright light nor than I am famous, let
alone that I am a bright light type of famous, whatever that may mean,
any more than a person with the last name Bear is asserting their
bear-like qualities.
-Robin
--
http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest.
... stripped of our uniqueness as human beings by Darwin, exposed to our
own inadequacies by Freud, ... Power -- "the ability to bring about our
desires" -- is all that we have left. --- Michael Korda, _Power!_