From xod@sixgirls.org Wed Oct 25 09:52:10 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_0); 25 Oct 2000 16:52:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 26311 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2000 16:52:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 25 Oct 2000 16:52:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (209.208.150.50) by mta3 with SMTP; 25 Oct 2000 16:52:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.0+3.3W/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9PGq7i22402 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:52:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:52:06 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] re re re the boat: literalism In-Reply-To: <69.c335e91.2728616d@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > pc on xod > <<<> > Metalinguistic uses are always the last to come: look at Aristotle > struggling to do it for Greek or Ockham for Medieval Latin > (another artifical language). >> > Whoa! Just about the only thing that is discussed in Lojban is Lojban. > Lojban is the only thing -- aside, perhaps, from the sins of Windows -- that > everyone interested in Lojban is interested in. there have been some short > stories and poems and translations but the bulk of Lojban (by item at least, > if not by length) is about Lojban -- what is right, what is wrong, how to > correct, etc. etc. na zgana .imu'ubo le dei casnu .i pe'i le jboka'e jinvi le du'u na kakne .i da tcidu be sepi'o le jbofi'e be'o ju na'e kakne le nu ciska ----- "...widespread, systematic and gross violations of human rights perpetrated by the Israeli occupying power, in particular mass killings...measures which constitute...crimes against humanity.'' UN Commission on Human Rights, 19 Oct 2000