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Re: Problems with Abstraction
- To: Lojban List <lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Re: Problems with Abstraction
- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 13:32:52 -0500
- Organization: Lojban Peripheral
- References: <199711041709.MAA26885@locke.ccil.org>
la .and. cusku di'e
[much correct Lojbanery snipped]
> It's like "All that
> glitters is not gold", which is fine for many many English
> speakers though not for me (I wd have to say "Not all that
> glitters is gold").
Really? I'm, as Colin Fine says, gobsmacked. There are
people who can say "All that flows is not water", outside
poetry?
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
e'osai ko sarji la lojban