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Re: [lojban] word for "www" (was: Archive location.)
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:35:28AM -0600, Jay F Kominek wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:48:33PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > Invent Yourself scripsit:
> >
> > > Everyone, I've been using the word "cukta" to mean roughly: a
> > > collection of documents and/or pages. I don't believe that I have
> > > yet heard an argument that contradicts this by adding more
> > > restrictions to the definition which are derived from the place
> > > structures, and not simply induced from the stereotypical "book".
> >
> > The place structures are not enough.
> >
> > Otherwise, there would be no distinguishing between any animals or
> > plants (modulo the few surviving exceptions) since they all have x1
> > as the creature and x2 as its species/type.
>
> x1 of bakni, sure, is a creature, but more specifically it has to be a
> bovine creature.
>
> x2 of bakni, sure, is a species, but more specifically, it has to be a
> species of bovine.
>
> Same for the rest of them.
That was *precisely* his point.
-Robin
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