From xod@thestonecutters.net Tue Nov 05 16:17:36 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 6 Nov 2002 00:17:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 43470 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2002 00:17:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Nov 2002 00:17:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2002 00:17:35 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 189Dt1-00075H-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:17:35 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 189DsR-00074h-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:16:59 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:16:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from [66.111.194.10] (helo=granite.thestonecutters.net) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 189DsN-00074V-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:16:55 -0800 Received: from localhost (xod@localhost) by granite.thestonecutters.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA60Gs075380 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 19:16:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from xod@thestonecutters.net) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 19:16:54 -0500 (EST) To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: What the heck is this crap? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021105191401.X73242-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 2431 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Invent Yourself Reply-To: xod@thestonecutters.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=110189215 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, And Rosta wrote: > Of course, if the zo'e is left implicit, you don't know whereabouts it > should be inserted relative to other sumti, so the problem arises only > for explicit zo'e. Ah, great! (Sarcasm.) So your solution is to add another rule: that implicit zo'e != explicit zo'e. > I don't see why you're reacting with such horror. People are always > discovering issues like this that nobody has thought of before. It's > inevitable that this happens. You don't understand because you've never tried to converse in Lojban. Whenever you compose bridi, you have minutes in which to do so; not seconds. -- "In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time." -- Edward Abbey