From graywyvern@hotmail.com Wed Aug 15 14:13:29 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: graywyvern@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 15 Aug 2001 21:13:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 48216 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2001 21:12:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Aug 2001 21:12:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.237.243) by mta2 with SMTP; 15 Aug 2001 21:12:46 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:12:42 -0700 Received: from 65.67.96.113 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:12:42 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.67.96.113] To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Bcc: Subject: junta [was: Re: [lojban] selma'o considered harmful Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:12:42 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Aug 2001 21:12:42.0841 (UTC) FILETIME=[05C61490:01C125CF] From: "michael helsem" >From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" li'o >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.... > maybe it's because we talk about weight as well as mass, the former being more important for everyday speech, but the latter being more fundamental. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp