From pycyn@aol.com Sat Sep 01 10:32:46 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 1 Sep 2001 17:32:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 40857 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2001 17:32:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Sep 2001 17:32:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m10.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.165) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Sep 2001 17:32:41 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m10.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.4.) id r.6.1b56d065 (17377) for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 13:32:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <6.1b56d065.28c275b0@aol.com> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 13:32:32 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] God To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_6.1b56d065.28c275b0_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_6.1b56d065.28c275b0_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/1/2001 11:28:05 AM Central Daylight Time, ragnarok@pobox.com writes: > DEFINING god in lojban is the hard part... > As it is in any language -- to the point where it is often said to be impossible except negatively. But Lojban is good at negations, avoiding many of the ambiguities that English, say, -- or Loglan even -- lets in. At one time or another, we have argued (not to definite conclusions in any case) for the best way to render the names of the major Gods (or the major names of the God) of the western monotheistic tradition and a bit less so the names of various particular gods (not excluding goddesses) of a variety of polytheisms -- these latter being easier, in general. --part1_6.1b56d065.28c275b0_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/1/2001 11:28:05 AM Central Daylight Time,
ragnarok@pobox.com writes:


DEFINING god in lojban is the hard part...
As it is in any language -- to the point where it is often said to be
impossible except negatively.  But Lojban is good at negations, avoiding many
of the ambiguities that English, say,  -- or Loglan even -- lets in.

At one time or another, we have argued (not to definite conclusions in any
case) for the best way to render the names of the major Gods (or the major
names of the God) of the western monotheistic tradition and a bit less so the
names of various particular gods (not excluding goddesses) of a variety of
polytheisms -- these latter being easier, in general. --part1_6.1b56d065.28c275b0_boundary--