From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Aug 23 16:36:54 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 23 Aug 2001 23:36:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 43864 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2001 23:33:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 23 Aug 2001 23:33:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 23 Aug 2001 23:33:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7NNX0I20963 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:33:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:32:59 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] soi vo'a: partial backflip In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Nick NICHOLAS wrote: > So I propose: > * vo'a is by default long-distance > > * when context overwhelmingly allows it, it can be short-distance instead mi ba'e sanji le za'i da carmi nabmi .i ku'i ga'inai le do stidi mubycikre goi ko'a cu tolmelbi je juxre je cfipu .i .i'i .uu node frili cikre ----- "It is not enough that an article is new and useful. The Constitution never sanctioned the patenting of gadgets. [...] It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures." -- Supreme Court Justice Douglas, 1950