From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Sep 27 12:18:25 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 27 Sep 2001 19:18:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 38696 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2001 19:18:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.4.55 with QMQP; 27 Sep 2001 19:18:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Sep 2001 19:18:24 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA17774; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:19:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BB37B6C.7010607@reutershealth.com> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:18:04 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Invent Yourself Cc: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] The Pleasures of goi (was: zipf computations & experimental cmavo References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Invent Yourself wrote: > ko'a goi la djan. .i li'o .i la fred. goi ko'a > > You wish to interpret this as "John = Fred", instead of a reassignment? > bi'u In usage we've been interpreting it as reassignment. Hmm, no, of course it's a reassignment. I must furiously to think. > no'u probably works like you think goi already does: > > ko'a goi la djan. .i li'o .i la fred. no'u ko'a > ko'a is John. Fred is John. By no means: saying "ko'a no'u la djan." is bogus if ko'a is not *already* defined. The whole point of goi (and cei) is their defining nature. > I'm afraid John's vice is that he likes to keep the mailing list > configured so that such duplicate mails are the default, requiring extra > steps to overcome. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html states my position. I use two different mail clients, one of which makes it very difficult to remove the author as a direct recipient. Hey, I get almost all emails twice and some three times from certain mailing lists, and I've learned to live with it. -- 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