From pycyn@aol.com Wed Sep 11 01:32:47 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 11 Sep 2002 08:32:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 7883 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2002 08:32:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Sep 2002 08:32:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d10.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.42) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2002 08:32:47 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d10.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.11.) id r.59.213d9935 (4012) for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 04:32:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <59.213d9935.2ab059aa@aol.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 04:32:42 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: word for "www" (was: Archive location.) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_59.213d9935.2ab059aa_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10509 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_59.213d9935.2ab059aa_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/10/2002 5:07:47 PM Central Daylight Time, gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch writes: << > lujvo are of use: > > in poetry > for a specific place structure (think gau, tai, rai etc) > if they have already been put in a dictionary > if you wish to do some sort of (me la .ueb cei le balcukta) > > otherwise, lujvo are a waste of the braincells used to learn the rafsi >> But the only purpose of rafsi is to make lujvo, so this seems ciruclar. As noted before, the purpose of lujvo is to fill semantic space using only the very limited basic resources provided by the gismu. So, they are useful everywhere that we need to talk about something beyond the few thousand concepts the gismu provide. Hopefully, a place where most of us are or hope to be. --part1_59.213d9935.2ab059aa_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/10/2002 5:07:47 PM Central Daylight Time, gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch writes:

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lujvo are of use:

in poetry
for a specific place structure (think gau, tai, rai etc)
if they have already been put in a dictionary
if you wish to do some sort of (me la .ueb cei le balcukta)

otherwise, lujvo are a waste of the braincells used to learn the rafsi

>>
But the only purpose of rafsi is to make lujvo, so this seems ciruclar. As noted before, the purpose of lujvo is to fill semantic space using only the very limited basic resources provided by the gismu. So, they are useful everywhere that we need to talk about something beyond the few thousand concepts the gismu provide. Hopefully, a place where most of us are or hope to be. --part1_59.213d9935.2ab059aa_boundary--