From xod@sixgirls.org Sat Aug 25 17:34:33 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 26 Aug 2001 00:34:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 21052 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2001 00:34:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Aug 2001 00:34:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta1 with SMTP; 26 Aug 2001 00:34:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7Q0YVH09415 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 20:34:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 20:34:31 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: mine, thine, hisn, hern, itsn ourn, yourn and theirn (was[lojban] si'o) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Nick Nicholas wrote: > Btw, there are two quite substantial chunks of Lojban in my 'retractions > Part 2' message. Yet to see anyone even respond to them, let alone comment > on their usage... (Does that mean my usage doesn't decide anything? :-) I will! I have yet to have the sort of uninterrupted block of time I need! ----- "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