From jjllambias@hotmail.com Tue Jun 13 17:30:21 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2925 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2000 00:30:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 14 Jun 2000 00:30:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.100) by mta1 with SMTP; 14 Jun 2000 00:30:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 66247 invoked by uid 0); 14 Jun 2000 00:30:19 -0000 Message-ID: <20000614003019.66246.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.32.23.179 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:30:19 PDT X-Originating-IP: [200.32.23.179] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: lujvo Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:30:19 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "Jorge Llambias" Robin: >I think I maybe just misunderstand lo. To me, 'lo cevni' sounds like >the English phrase 'the One True God(s)', which has a _huge_ mess of >underlying assumptions But it doesn't mean that. {lo cevni} is "a god", definitely with a small "g". "The One True God" is more like {le pa jetfu cevni}, and "God" is {la cevni}, or sometimes {la cev} has been used. {lo} should not be used at all for definite references. This has nothing to do with one's beliefs, it's just the grammar. co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com