From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Wed Feb 21 15:05:02 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 21 Feb 2001 23:05:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 56504 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2001 22:48:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Feb 2001 22:48:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Feb 2001 22:48:30 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id RAA05695; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:52:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:52:24 -0500 To: robin Cc: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] RE:su'u Message-ID: <20010221175223.A4418@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: robin , lojban References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010221151359.00b9f3d0@127.0.0.1> <3A9443AD.BF14ED52@bilkent.edu.tr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A9443AD.BF14ED52@bilkent.edu.tr>; from robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:39:41AM +0200 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:39:41AM +0200, robin wrote: > "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" wrote: > > > > At 05:08 PM 02/21/2001 +0000, And Rosta wrote: > > >Nor can it be laziness, because intellectually, rather than digitally, > > >zei lujvo are the easier option. > > > > But digital laziness exceeds intellectual laziness among the programmer > > types that frequent Lojbanistan. > > Which is why a lot of cmavo remind me of UNIX commands! > > Rather off-topic, here's an acronymical conundrum I set my students: > > Why do UN and IRA take a definite article, while UNESCO and ETA do not? Umm, ETA, in my universe, takes a definite article when, and only when, its expansion would in the same place. "What's the ETA on that?". I don't know what UNESCO stands for. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP