From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Dec 18 05:53:05 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 18 Dec 2002 13:53:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 34650 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2002 13:53:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Dec 2002 13:53:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Dec 2002 13:53:04 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA06566; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:05:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200212181405.JAA06566@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 18 Dec 2002 08:52:34 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: bridling hostility (was: RE: Re: the ethics of the HTML To: jjllambias@hotmail.com (Jorge Llambias) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 08:52:34 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: from "Jorge Llambias" at Dec 18, 2002 01:11:06 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Jorge Llambias scripsit: > Did you mean {tunba} instead of {bruna}, or is it more insulting > if the procreators are mutually brothers? I meant "bruna", implying that the victim is the se rorci of a not merely incestuous, but downright impossible, union. It is analogous to "ko ko malgletu". > One of my father's sisters is married to one of my mother's > brothers, and they have a daughter. Interesting: you are double first cross cousins. I have not heard of this before, though I have heard of sisters marrying brothers, leading to children who are double first parallel cousins. There is of course nothing improbable in it. -- Business before pleasure, if not too bloomering long before. --Nicholas van Rijn John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com