[lojban] Re: jbovlaste example.

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 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.

That's why I said "kutyjbi" for "near-vacuum".

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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