From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu Mar 13 10:52:51 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 18:52:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 80867 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2003 18:52:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2003 18:52:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2003 18:52:45 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18tXor-0000He-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:52:45 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18tXon-0000HK-00; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:52:41 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18tXof-0000H5-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:52:33 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:52:33 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: spofu skami Message-ID: <20030313185233.GM25165@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20030313180301.GB25165@digitalkingdom.org> <20030313130903.H85179-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> <20030313181651.GD25165@digitalkingdom.org> <200303131343.19334.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303131343.19334.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-archive-position: 4484 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 01:43:19PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > 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. > > "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. If people want to do something so insanely confusing when there are perfectly good words that actually *mean* network connection (ve benji or tcana pluta, for example), that's their right, I suppose, but it shouldn't be enshrined in the gi'uste. > How did we get into this discussion? I just wanted to let you know > that my computer is down... Heh. I bitched about nirna in my translation of your post. -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