From olivia@sonicblond.com Wed Oct 25 10:49:31 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: olivia@sonicblond.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_0); 25 Oct 2000 17:49:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 14386 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2000 17:49:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 25 Oct 2000 17:49:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (209.208.150.50) by mta2 with SMTP; 25 Oct 2000 17:49:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.0+3.3W/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9PHnNL23738; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:49:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:49:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: olivia@erika.sixgirls.org To: Invent Yourself Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] re re re the boat: literalism In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Olivia pc: > > Whoa! Just about the only thing that is discussed in Lojban is Lojban. xod: > 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 mi tugni la xod le di'u .i mi kajde fi le du'u le mi jbociska ba la'a cfipu le jbofi'e .i ti cilce lojbo .iku'i ko valsi katna nagi'a le du'u do na terpa .u'i .o'i [i agree with what xod said and warn you that my lojban will likely not pass jbofi'e. this is untamed lojban! but go ahead and parse, if you dare!] xu be le jbojdice tega'a pilno be'o cu cumki nagi'a le du'u lojbo ba'e na djedi pilno [can things possibly be 'decided through usage' if there *is no* lojban usage in the everyday sense?] olivian -- All physics one tautology; If you describe things with the right tensors All law becomes the fact that they can be described with them; This is the Assumption of the description.