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Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du'

To: Nick NICHOLAS <nicholas@uci.edu>
Subject: Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du'
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:03:53 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0108221625050.27400-100000@e4e.oac.uci.edu> from Nick NICHOLAS at "Aug 22, 2001 04:32:58 pm"

Nick NICHOLAS scripsit:

> I think lambda calculus is the bomb, and wonderful, and it would
> be great to use it in the metalanguage of Lojban. 

English dialect alert (though the context carries it here)!

In North America, "bomb" means figuratively a catastrophic failure,
rather than a great success.

-- 
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
Please leave your values        |       Check your assumptions.  In fact,
   at the front desk.           |          check your assumptions at the door.
     --sign in Paris hotel      |            --Miles Vorkosigan

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