From jjllambias@hotmail.com Wed Jun 28 21:35:16 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11430 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2000 04:35:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 29 Jun 2000 04:35:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.159) by mta1 with SMTP; 29 Jun 2000 04:35:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 2695 invoked by uid 0); 29 Jun 2000 04:35:16 -0000 Message-ID: <20000629043516.2694.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.41.247.51 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:35:16 PDT X-Originating-IP: [200.41.247.51] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] As Kunsunlundz said... [was RE: RECORD:containers] Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:35:16 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "Jorge Llambias" la lojbab cusku di'e >A bottle than contains nothing is in fact NOT a bottle, but >merely something that looks like a bottle, i.e. that has the form of a >bottle, but which is not in fact serving its containment function. Wow, a long post by lojbab and not a thing I can disagree with! :) I think {bo'itci} is a very good lujvo for English "bottle", an object used for bottly containment. I can imagine fluent Lojbanists having a dialogue like this: e'o ko tisygau le mi kabri lo vanju Please, pour some wine into my glass. u'u ti na ca botpi Sorry, this now doesn't bottle [any wine]. co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com