From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Wed Aug 30 16:47:10 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21041 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2000 23:47:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Aug 2000 23:47:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 Aug 2000 23:47:08 -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 TAA05150; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:49:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200008302349.TAA05150@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: pycyn@aol.com Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Metaphoric usage In-Reply-To: Message from pycyn@aol.com of "Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:35:52 EDT." Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:49:22 -0400 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell pycyn@aol.com writes: >While maikl's offerings are often metaphoric -- as well as idiosyncratic -- >to the point of marginal intelligibity, the present case is about as close to >literal as a tanru can get, namely is one of the recognized regular formats. >In this case it is the collapse of the second place into the modifier >position with reductions: from vlipa lenu pilno to pilno vlipa. I take it to >mean pretty close to "use-full" in fact. This case does not even have the >usual concealed intentional context. That was _exactly_ the type of answer I was looking for, thank you. :) -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Despite not getting very emotional about it, the fact that quantum entanglement doesn't allow transmission of information is probably the most profound dissapointment I've ever experienced. -- RLPowell