From njs@uclink4.berkeley.edu Mon Jun 11 19:04:47 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: njs@has-96-90.reshall.berkeley.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 12 Jun 2001 02:04:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 19844 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2001 02:04:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 12 Jun 2001 02:04:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net) (207.217.121.50) by mta3 with SMTP; 12 Jun 2001 02:04:46 -0000 Received: from WyrmWeyr.frop.org (pool0446.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.251.191]) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA05866 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:04:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from njs by WyrmWeyr.frop.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 159dXw-0002c0-00 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:04:44 -0700 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:04:43 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Message-ID: <20010611190443.A9848@njs.dhis.org> Reply-To: njs@uclink4.berkeley.edu Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: Nathaniel Smith From: Nathaniel Smith On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:46:19PM -0400, Craig wrote: > ti mo > > .i ma valsi ti la lojban. .i mi kucli le lojbo valsi > > > > Did I ask that right? I'm wondering how to say 'fractal' in lojban. BTW, > isn't it nonphonemic since we can't pronounce .. to have it possible in > lojban.? Please don't send megabyte-sized attachments to the list. Especially when saving it as, say, a jpeg or gif, would have made it about 30k. -- Nathaniel -- "...these, like all words, have single, decontextualized meanings: everyone knows what each of these words means, everyone knows what constitutes an instance of each of their referents. Language is fixed. Meaning is certain. Santa Claus comes down the chimney at midnight on December 24." -- The Language War, Robin Lakoff