From phma@webjockey.net Thu Mar 13 10:43:46 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 18:43:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 6296 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2003 18:43:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2003 18:43:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2003 18:43:35 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18tXfy-00009a-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:43:34 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18tXfv-00009H-00; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:43:31 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:43:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from 208-150-110-21-adsl.precisionet.net ([208.150.110.21] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18tXfm-000081-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:43:23 -0800 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1F91E3473; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: spofu skami Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:43:19 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030313180301.GB25165@digitalkingdom.org> <20030313130903.H85179-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> <20030313181651.GD25165@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20030313181651.GD25165@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303131343.19334.phma@webjockey.net> X-archive-position: 4482 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@webjockey.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Thursday 13 March 2003 13:16, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 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. > > The x1 of nirna is clearly a neuron. The x2 is the body containing the > neuron. I have no idea how one could possibly have any reasonable argument > against that point. > > Here's the full definition: > > nirna nir nerve > x1 is a nerve/neuron [body-part] of x2; [metaphor: > information/control network connection] > > [also (adjective:) x1 is neural]; (cf. ve benji) > > Note the cf. to "ve benji", which seems like it might do what you want. "metaphor", pe'i, means that {nirna} can be used in a tanru or lujvo to mean "network connection", even though that is not the meaning of {nirna} used by itself. How did we get into this discussion? I just wanted to let you know that my computer is down... phma -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga