From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Sep 27 12:22:29 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 27 Sep 2001 19:22:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 4760 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2001 19:22:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.4.56 with QMQP; 27 Sep 2001 19:22:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 27 Sep 2001 19:22:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8RJMR608742 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:22:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:22:27 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] The Pleasures of goi (was: zipf computations & experimental cmavo In-Reply-To: <3BB37B6C.7010607@reutershealth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, John Cowan wrote: > Invent Yourself wrote: > > > 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. Yes, we agree. > > 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. That page contains fallacious arguments. > 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. I don't want to live with it. I consider this a form of spam! -- 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.