From ragnarok@pobox.com Thu Sep 27 12:07:53 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 27 Sep 2001 19:06:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 51568 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2001 19:06:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.223 with QMQP; 27 Sep 2001 19:06:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.250) by mta3 with SMTP; 27 Sep 2001 19:07:52 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.34] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id A9072A83024E; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:07:51 -0400 Reply-To: To: "lojban" Subject: RE: [lojban] The Pleasures of goi (was: zipf computations & experimentalcmavo Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:07:49 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" >da'o wipes all variables, so we need a way to reassign just one, right? How about an experimental cmavo? I propose goi'a, which functions as you are claiming goi should. >or, less usefully (and >> therefore not the interpretation I would advocate) that ko'a can mean either >> John or Fred, and you have to glork which one it means. >What a horrid alternative! No way! Extremely horrid. Also decreases lojban's unambiguity. I don't like it, I was just pointing out that it is possible. >> Consider the alternative. Suppose John made ''reply'' go to the list; it can >> do a lot more damage to send persoanl comments to a couple hundred people >> than for one person to get two copies of a mail - in which case the can >> delete one. However, I do agree that people should only reply to the list, >> as I am doing now. >How often are private replies sent? And if you are sending private >material it behooves you, the one at risk of embarrassment, to protect >yourself by double-checking the mail address. After my HTML mail fiasco (when I tried to ask how to say "fractal" in lojban) I got some personal flames that the list would not have wanted to see. I have also been sent and have sent replies that it was not necessary to send to everyone - less bad then the flames would have been, though. --la kreig.daniyl. 'segu le bavli temci gi mi'o renvi lo purci .i ga le fonxa janbe gi du mi' -la djimis.BYFet xy.sy. gubmau ckiku nacycme: 0x5C3A1E74