... In fact, though, the color "indigo" < Late L "indicum", which indeed refers to India. ... "xenon" in Greek is indeed both "stranger" and "foreigner", but I...
John Cowan
jcowan@...
Sep 1, 2004 11:23 pm
23001
... Do we have different definitions of these words? To me "stranger" and "foreigner" are quite close in meaning, and {cizra} is quite distant from them....
PA5 contains xo, ci'i, no'o, ka'o, pai, te'o, and tu'o. Of these, ci'i, ka'o, pai, and te'o are mathematical constants, and no'o is in BPFK Section: Inexact...
... {fi'u} is also a mathematical constant in some contexts, though it is not in PA5. I think {ka'o} is more like {pi}, {ki'o}, {pi'e}, {fi'u} than like {pai}...
tertoi lo selsa'a bu'u le malsi oi mi tai tatpi le mi tolvri je tolci'o je tcecilce gugde i ausai mi darno klama le berti noi ti'e bu'u ke'a lo prenu cu jinsa ...
The crust could be considered the earth's skin ({skapi} or {pilka}) or shell ({calku}). A tectonic plate is a {plita} or {tapla} of the crust. The term ...
... skapi is a material, obtained from the se skapi, so I don't think it applies here. A calku appears to protect a softer se calku, but I'm not sure about...
x1 of mrilu is the sender of the mail, I think. x2 is the mail itself. I don't know what x3 and x4 are. I think x3 is the recipient, but then I don't know...
... I thought x4 was the sender's location (e.g. while on a trip to California I mailed a letter from Arizona). But then is x3 the recipient's location? phma ...
... x1 is the agent that causes the mailing. In RFC822 terminology, that's the "Sender:". I don't think it could be an intermediate node in the network. x3...
... I think the place structure is meant to match that of {benji} and {bevri}, so x4 is where x2 starts and x3 is where it ends up. mu'o mi'e xorxes ...
to mi mrilu dei le liste ki'u lo nu pe'i pu zukte fi lo nu mrilu fi le liste toi iesai ma'a nitcu lo lojbo gerna pe bau le lojbo i lo su'o ma'a ja'a su'oroi...
... OK, then what is x1 for? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their...
... From the gismu list I have: x1 mails/posts [transfer via intermediary service] x2 to x3 from x4 by carrier/network/system x5 That makes x1 the sender x2...
... I think x3 is the destination address, not the recipient. Consider letters to Santa Claus or junk mail addressed to "Occupant": they don't really have...
John Cowan
jcowan@...
Sep 9, 2004 5:30 pm
23017
"Inana's descent to the nether world" is a Sumerian mythological narrative, concerning goddess's descent, like Persephone's in the Greek mythology. I love the...
FROM THE DESK OF DR.MOHAMED NDEYE AUDITOR, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES, DAKAR SENEGAL. DEAR FRIEND. LETTER FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE ON FUND...
... The comment in the gi'uste says "[also x4 post office, mailbox]", and says that one way that {mrilu} differs from {benji} is that in the latter, "the...
I just read in a note from one of the other Lojban lists something to the effect that someone was disappointed after he bought CLL to find that it doesn't ...
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:15:41AM -0400, ... It's a complete description of the language's grammatical and semantic rules, not its vocabulary. I suggest that...
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:44:37 -0700, Robin Lee Powell ... The BPFK server also produces a PDF version which Kinko's can print as a nice, spiral-bound book for a...
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... mi stidi zo zilkarda (x1 is a card of shape x2). I'm not sure how to say "tesselation". I wouldn't say that lo tapla se zbasu .ei fi lo staku. It just has...
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Sep 17, 2004 1:53 pm
23029
.i ki'u ma zo malglico .enai zo malgli co'e -- Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ Ahhh, those were heady days. We were rebels, out looking for trouble....
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