From phma@oltronics.net Sun Jul 15 14:13:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 15 Jul 2001 21:13:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 28069 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2001 21:13:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Jul 2001 21:13:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.81) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Jul 2001 21:12:50 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id C46473C5A1; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 12:51:04 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Where is Lojbangug? Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 12:45:56 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0107151251040G.01127@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Invent Yourself wrote: >I find it interesting that their words for "television" and "computer" are >simple root-words. Their tenses hint at knowledge of spacetime. So >advanced, and yet they don't have a word for "billiards"! Isn't that "petso"? :) I've thought of "caxmati" for "chess": x1 is a chess game between x2 (white) and x3 (black). phma