From cowan@ccil.org Wed Jan 02 07:39:52 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 2 Jan 2002 15:39:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 90523 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2002 15:39:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m8.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Jan 2002 15:39:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2002 15:39:51 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16LnUg-0005QJ-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 10:39:54 -0500 Subject: Re: Belated Xmas present In-Reply-To: from Nick Nicholas at "Dec 29, 2001 11:23:13 pm" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 10:39:53 -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-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan Nick Nicholas scripsit: > I've submitted it for that Journal of Universal Language thing. It's just > two days' work, and it shows; then again, I hardly think the Journal is any > more serious than that. Comments welcome; I'll sneak them in to the final > version, or something... A wonderful Christmas gift indeed, and a great piece of participant observership! It provides the unknowledgeable-but-interested outsider with the sense of being inside the Lojban community. Two comments: there is no reason as far as I am concerned (though it may serve your rhetorical purposes) to burke my identity as the author of the "computerniks" remark; and you speak of me "warning" against things like "le catra be vo'a" = "the killer of himself", whereas my Wiki page meant to mark that as a Good Thing, not a Bad Thing. (Shoulda used an attitudinal.) Also, use a spelling checker! -- 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