From cowan@ccil.org Sun Nov 04 19:05:46 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 5 Nov 2001 03:05:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 47547 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2001 03:05:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m4.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Nov 2001 03:05:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2001 03:05:45 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 160a5F-0004on-00 for ; Sun, 04 Nov 2001 22:05:57 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] lo with discourse-scope? In-Reply-To: from "pycyn@aol.com" at "Nov 4, 2001 08:58:50 am" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 22:05:57 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan pycyn@aol.com scripsit: > Why Goatleg rule? In English, you can say "A goat has two legs", but in Lojban not. (One of Lewis Carroll's Tangled Tale puzzles turned on this feature of English.) -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan