From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Sep 27 12:19:26 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 27 Sep 2001 19:19:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 44885 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2001 19:19:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.4.53 with QMQP; 27 Sep 2001 19:19:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 27 Sep 2001 19:19:26 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8RJJOb08657 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:19:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:19:23 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban Subject: RE: [lojban] The Pleasures of goi (was: zipf computations & experimentalcmavo In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Craig wrote: > >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. Well, how about using goi for always reassignment, and no'u for the alternative. ko'a goi la fred. li'o .i ko'a goi la djan. A is Fred. ... Now A is John. (Fred is not John, A has new meaning.) ko'a goi la fred. li'o .i ko'a no'uji'a la djan. A is Fred. ... A also is John, lo, John is Fred! Since no'u doesn't reassign ko'a, but explains it, this is equal to offering a new fact about ko'a as it exists. > >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. Yes, the onus should be on the sender, and not on the rest of us. -- 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.