From cowan@ccil.org Sun Jun 03 16:41:11 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 3 Jun 2001 23:41:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 63783 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2001 23:41:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 3 Jun 2001 23:41:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 Jun 2001 23:41:09 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 156hUi-0002d5-00; Sun, 03 Jun 2001 19:41:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: Rabbity Sand-Laugher In-Reply-To: <81.b75ee53.284be39a@aol.com> from "pycyn@aol.com" at "Jun 3, 2001 03:01:46 pm" To: pycyn@aol.com Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 19:41:16 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan pycyn@aol.com scripsit: > I want to make it clear that I think finding that phrase was remarkably > clever. It can't be easy to find that close a match in a language which is > designed to be uniquely decomposable. I deserves some kind of medal. I think the context makes it clear that this was intended to be "It deserves" rather than "I deserve", as some people have interpreted it. > What about Oz or Willows [...] or Pooh [...]. Or [...] Tintin [...] > Or finish the Bible [...]. Or [...] David Copperfield [...] > or The Catcher in the Rye [...]. Unfortunately, *all* of this is still in copyright except for David Copperfield and the Bible, even if the latter were not in Hebrew and Greek. I suppose some Oz books must have fallen into the public domain by now, though. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter