From pycyn@aol.com Sat Jun 16 15:15:18 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 16 Jun 2001 22:15:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 24928 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2001 22:15:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 16 Jun 2001 22:15:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m09.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.164) by mta2 with SMTP; 16 Jun 2001 22:15:16 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id r.a4.158ce188 (1759) for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 18:15:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 18:15:12 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Are attitudinals assertions? (was: Attitudinals again (was: Sapi... To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_a4.158ce188.285d3470_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_a4.158ce188.285d3470_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/15/2001 9:52:37 PM Central Daylight Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes: > > Aren't there > >some miinimum requirements for playing in the metagame? > > i ti'e le nu se menli lo kucli cu romei lei sarcu be > le nu pagbu le nunkelci > Ahah! Someone else hs decided to test my reading ability. So today I just go with what is meant, not with what is said. A curious mind is certainly necessary, but not sufficient -- not the whole of the necessities. You also have to be able to understand what others say and to communicate back to them -- minimally to notice if you don't understand and ask about. It now appears that we have been arguing an issue for two weeks and one principal discussant has neither understood what the rest were saying nor was able to communicate what he meant, since he did not understand a central word. The word is not even jargon, but an ordinary word used not extraordinarily (I refrain from my rant about the educational system today). --part1_a4.158ce188.285d3470_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/15/2001 9:52:37 PM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:


>  Aren't there
>some miinimum requirements for playing in the metagame?

i ti'e le nu se menli lo kucli cu romei lei sarcu be
le nu pagbu le nunkelci


Ahah! Someone else hs decided to test my reading ability.  So today I just go
with what is meant, not with what is said.  
A curious mind is certainly necessary, but not sufficient -- not the whole of
the necessities.  You also have to be able to understand what others say and
to communicate back to them -- minimally to notice if you don't understand
and ask about.  It now appears that we have been arguing an issue for two
weeks and one principal discussant has neither understood what the rest were
saying nor was able to communicate what he meant, since he did not understand
a central word.  The word is not even jargon, but an ordinary word used not
extraordinarily (I refrain from my rant about the educational system today).  
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