[lojban] Re: jbovlaste example.

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:49:26PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:11:55PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> > > "kunti", or "kutyjbi" for "near-vacuum".
> > 
> > kunti is exactly what the original poster was arguing against;
> > vacuum is *not* empty.
> 
> I would have said he was arguing that "vacuum" _does_ mean "empty".
> Travis said: "Just because we've never observed a perfect vacuum 
> or the lack of gravity, shouldn't affect the meanings of the words."

You keep snipping too much.

We were talking about human-constructed vacuum inside a room here on
earth, which presumably is not perfect.

-Robin

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