From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Aug 15 15:04:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 15 Aug 2001 22:04:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 80102 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2001 22:02:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Aug 2001 22:02:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 15 Aug 2001 22:02:53 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA15377; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:04:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B7AF166.6040406@reutershealth.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:02:14 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cyril Slobin Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] ma smuni zo senva References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Cyril Slobin wrote: > coi rodo > > My question is not strictly about lojban, but rather about english > language. According to gismu list, {senva} means "dream". But from my > russian-biased point of view, english word "dream" has two diffirent > meanings that have very little in common. Dream(1) means "to see while > sleeping", and dream(2) is similar to "wish" or "hope". And I cannot > imagine a concept that covers both meanings at once. Maybe this is a > Worfian effect. zo'o Which of two {senva} means? The first, only. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein