From phma@webjockey.net Sun Aug 25 07:59:17 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 25 Aug 2002 14:58:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 45153 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2002 14:58:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Aug 2002 14:58:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Aug 2002 14:58:54 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 56D1C3C477; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:58:53 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] mlana Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:58:50 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0208251058500D.03039@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Saturday 24 August 2002 20:53, Jorge Llambias wrote: > la lojbab cusku di'e > > >After verifying with Nora (so this is two opinions as to what I meant), we > >were trying to deal with things like cubes which have 6 sides/faces, and > >the orientation is arbitrary. So x3 would be the direction that the side > >of the cube is facing. > > Let's work with actual examples: > > le bolci cu zunle le kubli mi > le bolci cu mlana le kubli fo mi > > The ball is to the left of the cube (considering the cube as facing me). I thought this meant "The ball is to my left of the cube.". That is, if I'm facing north, the ball is west of the cube, regardless of which way the cube is facing, or which way it is from me. phma