From lojbab@lojban.org Tue Aug 14 21:50:12 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 15 Aug 2001 04:50:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 49942 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2001 04:50:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Aug 2001 04:50:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-2.cais.net) (205.252.14.72) by mta3 with SMTP; 15 Aug 2001 04:50:11 -0000 Received: from user.lojban.org (dynamic249.cl8.cais.net [205.177.20.249]) by stmpy-2.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7F4oAX86371 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:50:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010815004512.00c51400@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:48:40 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] selma'o considered harmful In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 06:30 PM 8/14/01 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: >{junta} itself is one of those inexplicable gismu. >Why is there a gismu for weight, but none for height, >length, size, age, speed, beauty, and so many other >names of properties. I don't recall whether it is because JCB had one (it was not one of his core gismu, though it may have been one of those he added then forgot about after the Lojban split) or whether it was added because it was a property measured by a fundamental SI unit. Or maybe some other reason that I could find if I combed the paper archives.... lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org