From andrew@ling.ed.ac.uk Fri Aug 24 02:32:47 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: andrew@ling.ed.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 24 Aug 2001 09:32:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 4848 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2001 09:32:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 24 Aug 2001 09:32:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pisa.ling.ed.ac.uk) (129.215.204.69) by mta2 with SMTP; 24 Aug 2001 09:32:33 -0000 Received: from babel.ling.ed.ac.uk (babel.ling.ed.ac.uk [129.215.204.4]) by pisa.ling.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26982; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:32:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by babel.ling.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA18488; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:32:27 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: babel.ling.ed.ac.uk: andrew owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:32:27 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: andrew@babel To: John Cowan Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du' In-Reply-To: <3B857466.7020206@reutershealth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Andrew Smith Actually, John, can you get me one as well? >From here in Britland I've only ever heard 'bomb' as 'to fail, a disaster', and I don't know 'the bomb'. Interesting that you think to bomb is British, as I'd assumed it was American! Andrew /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | _ _ Language Evolution & Computation | | / \ _ __ __| |_ __ _____ __ Research Unit | | / _ \ | '_ \ / _` | '__/ _ \ \ /\ / / Department of Theoretical | | / ___ \| | | | (_| | | | __/\ V V / & Applied Linguistics | | /_/ \_\_| |_|\__,_|_| \___| \_/\_/ University of Edinburgh | | ____ _ _ _ EDINBURGH | | / ___| _ __ ___ (_) |_| |__ Scotland | | \___ \| '_ ` _ \| | __| '_ \ EH8 9LL | | ___) | | | | | | | |_| | | | andrew@ling.ed.ac.uk | | |____/|_| |_| |_|_|\__|_| |_| http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~andrew | \_______________________________________________________________________/ On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, John Cowan wrote: > Nathaniel Smith wrote: > > > English dialect? I've spent my whole life in California, and have > > Nick's meaning for "bomb" in my dialect just fine. (Generally, "bomb" > > as a verb seems to mean "to fail", while "the bomb" is something good, > > cool, great, etc.) > > Okay, okay. Where do I go to get my Old Fart certificate? > I obviously need one. :-) > > -- > Not to perambulate || John Cowan > the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com > during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel > > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >