Subject: Re: [lojban] "generic Odysseys"

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:00:45 -0500 (EST)

[email-masked] scripsit:

> I oppose creating a special borrowing for this just because we are
> used to skipping the author when referring to it in English. In
> particular, this privileges the second meaning which is ignorant &
> not "glorkable".

The trouble is that Homer is simply he who wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad,
and the Odyssey and the Iliad are the works of Homer. We have
no independent notion of Homer, as we do of most authors.

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