Subject: Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du'

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:03:53 -0400 (EDT)

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.

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