From nicholas@uci.edu Wed Aug 22 19:14:16 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: nicholas@uci.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 23 Aug 2001 02:14:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 4244 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2001 02:13:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Aug 2001 02:13:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e4e.oac.uci.edu) (128.200.222.10) by mta1 with SMTP; 23 Aug 2001 02:13:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (nicholas@localhost) by e4e.oac.uci.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA21973; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 19:13:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: e4e.oac.uci.edu: nicholas owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 19:13:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: To: John Cowan Cc: Subject: Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du' In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Nick NICHOLAS On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, John Cowan wrote: > 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. .i mi pu li'a .ei pilno zoigy. da bomb gy. (ne le'e friko merko bangu ge'u) .enai zoigy. the bomb gy. mi'e nitcion -- noi spuda bau la lojban mu'i lenu vecu'u le bangrtlingana mriste; lei cusku na curmi lenu da tavla fi lo na steci be le bangrtlingana na'ebo le bangrtlingana -- == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == Nick Nicholas, Breathing {le'o ko na rivbi fi'inai palci je tolvri danlu} nicholas@uci.edu -- Miguel Cervantes tr. Jorge LLambias