From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu Mar 13 10:25:57 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_1); 13 Mar 2003 18:25:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 4574 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2003 18:25:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2003 18:25:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2003 18:25:56 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18tXOu-0008JB-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:25:56 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18tXOr-0008If-00; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:25:53 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:25:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18tXOj-0008IR-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:25:45 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:25:45 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: spofu skami Message-ID: <20030313182545.GE25165@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20030313180301.GB25165@digitalkingdom.org> <20030313130903.H85179-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> <20030313181651.GD25165@digitalkingdom.org> <20030313182853.GA50746@allusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030313182853.GA50746@allusion.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-archive-position: 4472 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:28:53PM -0600, Jordan DeLong wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:16:51AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:12:17PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:57:03AM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > > > > > It is part of the basic definition. The definition is not > > > > > "nerve"; that's a logflash mnemonic. > > > > > > > > x1 is a nerve/neuron [body-part] of x2 > > > > > > > > Note the words 'nerve', 'neuron', and 'body-part'. Perhaps > > > > you're talking about a different definition? > > > > > > You know what I'm talking about. Pretend I've explained myself. > > > > Umm, no, I don't. IIRC we've discussed this before, and I threw my > > hands up in frustration because I couldn't understand what the hell > > you were trying to say. > [...] > > Note the cf. to "ve benji", which seems like it might do what you > > want. > > I agree with robin. > > All the "metaphor" suggestions in the gismu list are anti-lojbo, and > encourage polysemy. It really does. In fact, it seems to obviously contradict the "each word has exactly one meaning" idea. Very obviously. BTW, I had to look up polysemy, so for everyone else: "Having or characterized by many meanings: "highly polysemous words such as play and table."". From http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=polysemy > Shouldn't it be xe benji though? Probably. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi