From xod@sixgirls.org Sat Sep 22 13:13:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 22 Sep 2001 20:13:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 61765 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2001 20:13:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Sep 2001 20:13:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta1 with SMTP; 22 Sep 2001 20:13:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8MKD3i26267 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 16:13:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 16:11:47 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Dumb answers to good questions In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010922144728.00b695a0@pop.cais.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > At 07:23 PM 9/22/01 +0100, wrote: > >Xod: > > > On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, And Rosta wrote: > > It'd be a very bad thing if they couldn't be translated into Lojban, but > >the grammar of UI is plenty powerful enough to translate them. However, > >to my mind, the semantics of focus calls not for a discursive but for > >the kind of logicosyntactic manipulations evident in the English. > > Why? Specifically, why must Lojban convey things by logicosyntactic > manipulations merely because English does? And why must Lojban express every nuance of English? ----- It's said that Mullah Omar has met two non-Muslims in his life. Others say even that's not true. Sami ul-Haq, Osama bin Laden's closest friend in Pakistan, runs the "University for the Education of Truth," a fundamentalist institution that educated and trained nine out of the Taliban's top 10 leaders.