From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Oct 20 14:20:29 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_1_0); 20 Oct 2000 21:20:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 28041 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2000 21:20:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 20 Oct 2000 21:20:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-3.cais.net) (205.252.14.73) by mta2 with SMTP; 20 Oct 2000 21:20:27 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (51.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.51]) by stmpy-3.cais.net (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9KLW0751952 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:32:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lojbab@lojban.org) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001020164056.00ad3b30@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:45:02 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE:literalism In-Reply-To: <00102014404308.29997@neofelis> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 02:32 PM 10/20/2000 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > >PINJI DINJU sounds like a bathhouse. > >Maybe, but I would take {pinjydi'u} to be an obelisk. And skyscrapers are obelisks in shape. > I'd say {gledi'u} for >bathhouse. > >pinjydi'u: x1 is an obelisk/skyscraper for x2, being the penis of x3 (such as >an Egyptian god) or sticking out of x3 Exactly what I had in mind. Now where does a building stick out of? Out of the site at which it is located. So I would modify that to: >pinjydi'u: x1 is an obelisk/skyscraper for (purpose) x2, sticking out >of/located at site x3 Metaphoric, and it still generates a useful place structure. And it brings sex into yet another Lojban discussion. What more could we ask for %^) lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org