From xod@sixgirls.org Tue Mar 27 17:46:07 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@shiva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 28 Mar 2001 01:46:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 98873 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 01:46:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Mar 2001 01:46:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO shiva.sixgirls.org) (206.252.141.232) by mta1 with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 01:46:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by shiva.sixgirls.org (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2S1lxv26298 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:48:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:47:59 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Finding meaning in a navel (was: lojban audial recognition etc. In-Reply-To: <20010327173313.S11825@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Value Yourself On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:20:41PM -0500, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > [snip] > [About our ivory tower discussions.] > > The content of the discussion may get technical or polyglot or abstract, but > > the motivation is always ultimately practical. > > Umm, actually, the last djuno discission was motivated because I was > offended by a comment in the book that one could only djuno what is > actually true. There was no practical origin. > > There usually is though. The rest of us chimed in, and I started discussing krici, for the practical reason that if the English description of a gismu is sufficiently ambiguous, or refers to nothing in reality as in the case of krici, it's hard to use the gismu for practical usage. I would settle for a place in krici that holds the belief-evidence, or at the very least a relaxation of the English to eliminate the condition that the selkrici must have no evidence. ----- "The trees are green, since green is good for the eyes". I agreed with him, and added, that God had created cattle, since beef soups strengthen man; that he created the donkey, so that it might give man something with which to compare himself; and he had created man, to eat beef soup and not be a donkey.