From xod@sixgirls.org Wed Feb 21 15:40:35 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@erika.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 21 Feb 2001 23:40:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 77832 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2001 23:29:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Feb 2001 23:29:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (209.208.150.50) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Feb 2001 23:29:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1LNT8701808 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:29:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:29:08 -0500 (EST) To: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] RE:su'u In-Reply-To: <20010221175223.A4418@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 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. Call me weird but when I see "ETA" I first think of the Basque national liberation force, not "Estimated time of arrival". I never hear anybody discuss UNESCO so I don't know how it's used. ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!