From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Tue Mar 27 13:56:25 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 27 Mar 2001 21:56:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 31735 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2001 21:56:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 27 Mar 2001 21:56:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2 with SMTP; 27 Mar 2001 21:56:22 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id RAA04268 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:03:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:03:22 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: djuno debate (was: RE: [lojban] Random lojban questions/annoyances.) Message-ID: <20010327170322.L11825@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:19:12PM -0000 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:19:12PM -0000, And Rosta wrote: > In that debate, which ran along similar lines to the current one, > the majority view, then as now, was that djuno = 'know' (and it is > a fact not controvertible by adducing sundry half-baked dictionary > 'definitions', that in all dialects of English the meaning of > "know" is such that if "x knows y" is true then "y" is true). I'm mostly no longer interested in this discussion, but I'd really appreciate it if people stopped telling me (and all my friends) that as a native English speaker, my 'dialect' (standard NA Engish) is invalid. -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