From pycyn@aol.com Wed Mar 28 12:50:42 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 28 Mar 2001 20:50:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 44916 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 20:49:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 28 Mar 2001 20:49:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r12.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.66) by mta2 with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 20:49:57 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r12.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v29.5.) id r.e6.136ddb6b (4459) for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:49:27 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:49:27 EST Subject: Re: "ivory tower gazing" [was: Re: [lojban] lojban audial To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_e6.136ddb6b.27f3a857_boundary" Content-Disposition: Inline X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10501 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_e6.136ddb6b.27f3a857_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/28/2001 2:19:22 PM Central Standard Time, graywyvern@hotmail.com writes: > <>From: And Rosta > li'o > >I am interested in Lojban only for the scope it affords for ivory-tower > >navel > >gazing. > > > > STASU KATNA> > Stew cut? I don't get it. I can make some sense of {stasu te katna}, though its connection with philosophical argle-bargle is not too clear. Taking philsophy as a hotch-potch (a stew of miscellaneous, often left-over or slightly skank, ingredients) is also not a position I would reject outright. But then what does the cut do? Or maybe from {katna lo stasu}, something related to nailing Jell-o to a tree, a totally fruitless activity? But, as I have said, the mucking about has a very practical aim and usually a practical result -- clarity if nothing else and that not to be contemned in a logical language. --part1_e6.136ddb6b.27f3a857_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/28/2001 2:19:22 PM Central Standard Time,
graywyvern@hotmail.com writes:


<>From: And Rosta <arosta@uclan.ac.uk>
     li'o
>I am interested in Lojban only for the scope it affords for ivory-tower
>navel
>gazing.
>

STASU KATNA>


Stew cut?  I don't get it.  I can make some sense of {stasu te katna}, though
its connection with philosophical argle-bargle is not too clear.  Taking
philsophy as a hotch-potch (a stew of miscellaneous, often left-over or
slightly skank, ingredients) is also not a position I would reject outright.  
But then what does the cut do?
Or maybe from {katna lo stasu}, something related to nailing Jell-o to a
tree, a totally fruitless activity?  But, as I have said, the mucking about
has a very practical aim and usually a practical result -- clarity if nothing
else and that not to be contemned in a logical language. --part1_e6.136ddb6b.27f3a857_boundary--