From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Mon Feb 12 09:18:24 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: arosta@uclan.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_3); 12 Feb 2001 17:18:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 17922 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2001 17:18:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 12 Feb 2001 17:18:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO com1.uclan.ac.uk) (193.61.255.3) by mta3 with SMTP; 12 Feb 2001 18:19:27 -0000 Received: from gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk by com1.uclan.ac.uk with SMTP (Mailer); Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:02:07 +0000 Received: from DI1-Message_Server by gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:18:17 +0000 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:18:03 +0000 To: lojban Subject: [lojban] Re: RE:su'u Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: And Rosta aULUN: #--- In lojban@y..., "And Rosta" wrote: [...] #Even as a jurist (and hence not unfamiliar with hair-splitting=20 #l'art-pour-l'art issues of that kind), I must admit that I'm deeply=20 #impressed (shocked?) by the murmur descending from your=20 #linguists ivory tower ;-) #BTW, do you really think that there's an essential difference=20 #between names and "common" words, as all words being=20 #nothing but labels attached to things belonging to (a)=20 #world(s) experienced (or at least imagined) by users of=20 #language?! I don't really understand your question. But certainly it is my personal view that there is no semantic or grammatical difference between proper names and common nouns. But this view, though not unusual, is not mainstream. And Lojban does make this mainstream semantic and grammatical distinction between proper names and=20 brivla. --And.