From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Mar 05 13:36:26 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_1); 5 Mar 2003 21:36:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 77703 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2003 21:36:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Mar 2003 21:36:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2003 21:36:25 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18qgYr-0004Be-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:36:25 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18qgYh-0004BL-00; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:36:15 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:36:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [65.246.141.36] (helo=mail.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18qgYa-0004BC-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:36:08 -0800 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA00563; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:33:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200303052133.QAA00563@mail.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:36:06 -0500 Subject: [lojban] Re: Proper usage of jbovlaste. To: xod@thestonecutters.net Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:36:06 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20030305154227.S88738-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> from "Invent Yourself" at Mar 05, 2003 03:44:26 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mail.reutershealth.com id QAA00563 X-archive-position: 4364 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: John Cowan Reply-To: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Invent Yourself scripsit: > There was a recent case of someone trying to smuggle monkeys through > customs in their pants. Perhaps that's what the writer had in mind. Your > sense of decorum seems somewhat restrictive. In addition, there is no necessary implication in the phrase "le mi palku" that mi is actually wearing the palku at the time. In which case the whole thing changes from kinky to absurdist. But no one example is indispensable. I reduced the strength of my original title for Woldy chapter 1 from "Lojban as we butcher it in Lojbanistan" to "... as we mangle it ..." on hearing complaints from several people that "butcher" was excessively graphic. -- Híggledy-pìggledy / XML programmers John Cowan Try to escape those / I-eighteen-N woes; http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Incontrovertibly / What we need more of is http://www.reutershealth.com Unicode weenies and / François Yergeaus. jcowan@reutershealth.com