From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 23 09:27:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 23 Aug 2001 16:27:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 49371 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2001 16:16:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Aug 2001 16:16:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 23 Aug 2001 16:16:48 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15Zx9c-0007Ji-00; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:16:24 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:16:24 -0700 To: John Cowan Cc: Nick NICHOLAS , lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du' Message-ID: <20010823091624.B31850@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: John Cowan , Nick NICHOLAS , lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i From: Robin Lee Powell On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:03:53PM -0400, 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. No, it doesn't. You don't have children, do you? Note that "That movie is _the_ bomb" is a linguistic reversal slang a la "That's bad" from the mid-eighties, but "That movie is _a_ bomb" means that the movie was bad, in a non-mid-eighties sense. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/