From rob@twcny.rr.com Tue Jan 29 15:33:08 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 29 Jan 2002 23:33:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 3025 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2002 23:33:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m4.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Jan 2002 23:33:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout6.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.177) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Jan 2002 23:33:07 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id g0TNX6u01866 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:33:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:33:02 -0500 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16VhkN-0000OD-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:33:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:33:03 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] signs and seasons and days and years Message-ID: <20020129233303.GE731@twcny.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2572649 X-Yahoo-Profile: squeekybobo On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:26:11PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > To me {e'o gusni} sounds for example like "Lights!" > said by a movie director. But maybe that's how it > all started after all... The movie director would more likely say {ie gusni}, and only that because it's shorter than {ko gusnygau}. {e'o gusni} sounds very vague to me. Roughly, "How about some illumination." And to back up in the thread, that certainly doesn't sound like the kind of thing God would say. -- la rab.spir poi nalnelci zo e'o