I have never understood less about what's going on. -deech On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:

ki'asai

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Brent Yorgey wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:52:13AM -0500, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:

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Specifically, I want to form a lujvo meaning "omnicide" (to ta'o this is due to the tvtropes trope "Omnicidal Maniac" ta'onai toi).  {ro zei catra} or {rolcatra} seems to be wrong.

{ro zei se catra} seems like it's all the victims, so maybe selrolselcatra?

I'm not quite clear on what it means to be a lujvo if you don't have a tanru as the basis.

Me neither.  You probably need to use zygohistomorphic prepromorphisms.

-Brent

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Alex, I think you might have better luck on one of the Lojban forums: http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Lojbanic+Forums

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 02:17:36PM -0500, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:

I think brent's reply was making fun of me and didn't have much meaning beyond that.

Yes, I was poking some light-hearted fun at you for sending (mistakenly, I presume) a lojban question to a Haskell mailing list. =) -Brent

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:32:04PM -0500, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:

mea culpa

Hmm, more lojban, eh? ;) Seriously, no need to apologize, it was an innocent mistake and we all do stuff like this on occasion. At least I know I do.

I hope you all got a good laugh at my expense.

The funniest part (to me) was that you didn't realize what you had done even when lots of people on the "lojban-beginners" mailing list were very confused. =) Anyway, since we are already off-topic, I will highly recommend the book "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error", by Kathryn Schulz (for everyone, not just you) which gives some fascinating perspectives on incidents such as this one. -Brent

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Brent Yorgey wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 02:17:36PM -0500, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:

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I think brent's reply was making fun of me and didn't have much meaning beyond that.

Yes, I was poking some light-hearted fun at you for sending (mistakenly, I presume) a lojban question to a Haskell mailing list. =)

-Brent

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From my perspective, one person was just being a bit silly at me, and one person had no idea what I was talking about (I assumed it was someone who was subscribed but hadn't been actively learning).

Then I didn't check my email for the next three messages. So it wasn't exactly "lots of people". On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Brent Yorgey wrote:

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:32:04PM -0500, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:

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mea culpa

Hmm, more lojban, eh? ;) Seriously, no need to apologize, it was an innocent mistake and we all do stuff like this on occasion. At least I know I do.

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I hope you all got a good laugh at my expense.

The funniest part (to me) was that you didn't realize what you had done even when lots of people on the "lojban-beginners" mailing list were very confused. =)

Anyway, since we are already off-topic, I will highly recommend the book "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error", by Kathryn Schulz (for everyone, not just you) which gives some fascinating perspectives on incidents such as this one.

-Brent

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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Brent Yorgey

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On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 02:17:36PM -0500, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:

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I think brent's reply was making fun of me and didn't have much

meaning

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beyond that.

Yes, I was poking some light-hearted fun at you for sending (mistakenly, I presume) a lojban question to a Haskell mailing list. =)

-Brent

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