From nicholas@uci.edu Mon Jul 23 20:21:13 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: nicholas@uci.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 24 Jul 2001 03:21:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 64263 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2001 03:21:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 24 Jul 2001 03:21:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e4e.oac.uci.edu) (128.200.222.10) by mta1 with SMTP; 24 Jul 2001 03:21:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (nicholas@localhost) by e4e.oac.uci.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA03636; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:21:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: e4e.oac.uci.edu: nicholas owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:21:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: To: Cc: Nick NICHOLAS Subject: Length competition (Re: from the classics) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Nick NICHOLAS Btw, PC, now that I get the joke, I think it would be both paedagogically and Lojbanically appropriate if you inserted the 'I sense that...' evidential as each animal does his hydroscopic analysis of the river. Anything we can do to tie the inferences together that natural language just leaves implicit is good. It's your piece, not truly archival (I thought 'from the classics' meant you dug this up from Lojban List while I was away), correct? In which case, there were a couple of stylistic (not grammatical) thinks I didn't like; if I get time (hmpf) I'll get back to you. -- /||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||\ | "One must first know that traditionally a Japanese bus has carried not || | only a driver but one or more young girls who stand in the aisles and || | sell tickets, announce stops, and in general console the passengers for|| | the inadequacies and discomforts of this transient world." \ | --- Roy Andrew Miller, _The Japanese Language_, p. 251 \ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| \||||nicholas@uci.edu|||||||Transient Passenger||||||Nick Nicholas|||||||||| ==\||||||||||||www.opoudjis.net||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||/ ()() ()() ()()