From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Tue Jun 13 08:38:40 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17662 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2000 15:37:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 13 Jun 2000 15:37:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 13 Jun 2000 15:37:40 -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 LAA08379 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:37:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200006131537.LAA08379@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: The Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: lujvo In-Reply-To: Message from Ivan A Derzhanski of "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:31:15 +0300." <394653C3.70DC@math.bas.bg> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:37:57 -0400 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Ivan A Derzhanski writes: >Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: >> But in Lojban, none of these would have the Italian MEANING of "Madonna" >> because Lojban tanru have all manner of interpretations, and lujvo >> select a single ad hoc one of these, but are not necessarily a part >> of the lexicon unless picked up by the speaking community (and/or >> enshrined in the dictionary). > >Indeed. {cevni mamta} `god mother' invites at least two obvious >interpretations: `mother who is a goddess' (Thetis) and `mother >of a god' (Alcmene). I actually would have thought of Godmother in the Catholic sense before either of those. -Robin, apparently failing to break out of his cultural mode. :P -- 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!_