Re: Dao De Jing [was Re: Promoting Lojban]

[Robin Turner <robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx]

la djy,min cusku di'e

> > > zo robin cusku di'e
> > Surely this means "The word 'Robin' says the following"?!
>
> Ooops. A misunderstanding of "la robin." There was someone told me that
> "la robin." (the one called Robin) doesn't indicate that it is this
> Robin or that Robin; everyone in the world called Robin is "la robin."
> So I just wanted to make it clear... Any substitution?
>

AFAIK, {la}, like {lo} and {le}, doesn't specify number, but context makes it clear that {la robin.} refers to
me, and not any other Robins. If you want to refer to all people called Robin, I think it would be {la'i
robin.} - "the set of things named 'Robin'."

>
> > {.ai .izo'o} though given the way this thread's going, I might just start writing {la lindzy}!
>
> Oh, no. "Lin" is my family name, and "Zhemin" is my surname. So you may
> call me "djy,min" (while it is invalid to write djymin).
>

Well, it's not even acceptable Lojban (since it ends in a vowel). It was meant to be "Linzi" like "Laozi" or
"Zhuangzi"!

>
> > It's set to 65 characters, so the problem is with your mail server, not my mail.
>
> Which message reader do you use? Maybe it's displayed as 65 characters
> wide, but no LF (0x0A) is inserted between two lines.
>

This thing really has me beat. I mailed a sample to myself, then opened it in my UNIX reader (pine) and it came
out fine. Maybe something weird is going on at onelist. I might be able to get round the problem by using the
MIME printable option, but then that could screw things up for some of the individuals and newsgroups I write
to.

>
> > IIRC, Wangbi was a neo-Daoist and emphasised naturalness, spontaneity etc. The Han dynasty commentators
> > were more into the psychophysiological practices.
>
> Do you know who are the commentators in Han dynasty? I've no idea.
> Psychophysiological (what a long word) practice is just a Chinese
> tradition. Many people (even do I) practice some. However, though the
> concept of some practices are from Daoism (not the religious one), the
> theory is majorly based on medical books written in Han and Jin
> dynasty.

I'm afraid all my books are in England.

co'o mi'e robin.