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And Rosta scripsit:
> I am happy for the fundies to dismiss me. MS Lojban already makes me
> feel palpably nauseous
For the record, "nauseous" refers not to the (vamty)bilma, but to the
te bilma: "Oysters and strawberries are a nauseous mixture."
> I don't deny that Grice can come
> to the rescue somehow, but He needs to be given a helping hand by
> what we actually say.
Hmm, Lojbanistan has acquired a fifth god, I see.
> CLL
> {loi} = {pisu'o loi} & means "pisu'o loi"
> {piroloi} means "piro loi" = "loi"
What does the final '= "loi"' mean?
> My kitchen tap sounds like an ululation of Xena Warrior Princess, but
> I don't think of my kitchen tap having a referent.
But surely that's because your tap was not made so on purpose. The fact that
a cliff face resembles a man does not make the man its referent, but the
statues on Mt. Rushmore do in fact refer to various American Presidents,
thanks to the efforts of Gutzon Borglum and his dynamiters.
"If a man hacking at a block of wood make therein the image of a cow,
is that image a work of art?"
--Stephen Dedalus
--
"In my last lifetime, John Cowan
I believed in reincarnation; http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
in this lifetime, jcowan@hidden.email
I don't." --Thiagi http://www.reutershealth.com