From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Sat May 20 13:42:42 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25883 invoked from network); 20 May 2000 20:42:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 20 May 2000 20:42:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 20 May 2000 20:42:42 -0000 Received: from calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12286 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 16:42:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200005202042.QAA12286@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] Help with fiction In-Reply-To: Message from "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" of "Sat, 20 May 2000 15:16:47 EDT." <4.2.2.20000520151152.00af9a30@127.0.0.1> Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 16:42:28 -0400 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell >>{mipri girzu}? {sivni girzu}? > >You have presented reasons why they are not necessarily a tradition >"cabal". With Lojban, they have decide just what they are trying to say. Why? It's a name. If I call myself "la carmi gusni misno", a literalist translation of 'Robin', to wit, "Bright Fame", I am _not_ nescessarily saying that I am a bright light nor than I am famous, let alone that I am a bright light type of famous, whatever that may mean, any more than a person with the last name Bear is asserting their bear-like qualities. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. ... stripped of our uniqueness as human beings by Darwin, exposed to our own inadequacies by Freud, ... Power -- "the ability to bring about our desires" -- is all that we have left. --- Michael Korda, _Power!_