Re: [lojban] RE:su'u

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:29:08PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:39:41AM +0200, robin wrote:
> > > "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > At 05:08 PM 02/21/2001 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
> > > > >Nor can it be laziness, because intellectually, rather than digitally,
> > > > >zei lujvo are the easier option.
> > > >
> > > > But digital laziness exceeds intellectual laziness among the programmer
> > > > types that frequent Lojbanistan.
> > >
> > > Which is why a lot of cmavo remind me of UNIX commands!
> > >
> > > Rather off-topic, here's an acronymical conundrum I set my students:
> > >
> > > Why do UN and IRA take a definite article, while UNESCO and ETA do not?
> >
> > Umm, ETA, in my universe, takes a definite article when, and only when,
> > its expansion would in the same place.  "What's the ETA on that?".  I
> > don't know what UNESCO stands for.
> 
> 
> 
> Call me weird but when I see "ETA" I first think of the Basque national
> liberation force,

What's the expansion of that acronym?

-Robin

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