From cowan@ccil.org Sun Jun 03 21:41:27 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 4 Jun 2001 04:41:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 38798 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2001 04:41:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Jun 2001 04:41:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 4 Jun 2001 04:41:25 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 156mBL-0004EO-00; Mon, 04 Jun 2001 00:41:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: Rabbity Sand-Laugher In-Reply-To: <27.1672a108.284c21bf@aol.com> from "pycyn@aol.com" at "Jun 3, 2001 07:26:55 pm" To: pycyn@aol.com Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 00:41:35 -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: > using it merely as something to argue about will not get the language to > go anywhere.> > > I couldn't agree more. But producing a pile of crap because of poor planning > and poor choices seems to me a bad way to get the language off its duff. Taking Three as the number to reason about, A convenient number to state, Add Seven and Ten, and multiply out By One Thousand diminished by Eight. We then proceed to divide this, you see, by Nine Hundred and Ninety and Two, Subtract Seventeen, and the answer must be Exactly and perfectly true. (How to compute 1+2, for na'ebo lo cipnrdodo) -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter