From xod@sixgirls.org Sat Apr 22 01:15:40 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11199 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2000 08:15:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Apr 2000 08:15:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO qh.egroups.com) (10.1.2.28) by mta2 with SMTP; 22 Apr 2000 08:15:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 8710 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2000 08:15:40 -0000 Received: from ip72.207-252-3.vastnet.net (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (207.252.3.72) by qh.egroups.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2000 08:15:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.9.3+3.2W/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA23503 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 04:15:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 04:15:38 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: RE: [lojban] RECORD: abstractions from names. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, And Rosta wrote: > xod: > > On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, And Rosta wrote: > > > > > pc: > > > > Being John Malkovitch is, presumably, le zu'u la djan malkovitc. > > > > > > I don't have any reference materials handy, but that doesn't look right. > > > > > > My effort, from feeble memory: > > > > > > le zu'u ce'u me la djan malkovitc > > > > > > The ce'u is grammatical, I think. I'm less sure whether the meaning of the > > > whole is appropriate, though. > > > > > > > > ki'a (confusion!) > > > > zu'u [ UI3 ] on the one hand > > discursive: on the one hand - on the other hand (cf. karbi, > > frica. dukti) > > > > > > ru'a do'o nitcu zo za'i > > (perhaps you meant "za'i"). > > [a curious but not inapt use of "nitcu"] > ki'e (thanks!) > I mean the NU for activity -- or rather, that's what I assumed pc was using. le su'u tcini cu smuni zo za'i (za'i = "the state of-",) .i za'a ri zmadu zo nu le ka mapti be zoi gy. being .gy (which seems to fit "being" better than the event abstraction.) > I don't have even a ma'oste on my PC here, so can't check. http://www.animal.helsinki.fi/lojban/selmaho.html ----- In the Linux world, all of the major distributions have turned into companies. How much revenue would Red Hat generate if their product was flawless? How much support would they sell?