From cowan@ccil.org Wed Aug 22 19:06:53 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 23 Aug 2001 02:06:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 54007 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2001 02:03:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Aug 2001 02:03:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 23 Aug 2001 02:03:43 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15Zjqb-0005f7-00; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:03:53 -0400 Subject: Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du' In-Reply-To: from Nick NICHOLAS at "Aug 22, 2001 04:32:58 pm" To: Nick NICHOLAS Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:03:53 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Nick NICHOLAS scripsit: > I think lambda calculus is the bomb, and wonderful, and it would > be great to use it in the metalanguage of Lojban. English dialect alert (though the context carries it here)! In North America, "bomb" means figuratively a catastrophic failure, rather than a great success. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan