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Re: Plurals, sets, masses, sequences -- decisions on the weekend
- To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
- Subject: Re: Plurals, sets, masses, sequences -- decisions on the weekend
- From: John Cowan <cbmvax!UUNET.UU.NET!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1992 09:56:42 EST
- In-Reply-To: <9201292300.AA19440@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>; from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Jan 29, 92 5:59 pm
- Reply-To: John Cowan <cbmvax!UUNET.UU.NET!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!LOJBAN>
la mark. clsn. privately corrects me:
>> mi fa'u do se cmene la djan. fa'u la lojbab.
>> I respectively-with you is-benamed John respectively-with Lojbab.
> Shouldn't that be "mi fa'u do se cmene zo djan. fa'u zo lojbab."? Just to
> be difficult. After all, one is not named by "the-one-called-john", but by
> "the-word-john".
Of course (smack forehead). I committed the most elementary blunder about
Lojban names while trying to make a far more difficult point. u'u
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e'osai ko sarji la lojban