From rob@twcny.rr.com Mon Jun 26 18:29:58 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4331 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2000 01:29:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 Jun 2000 01:29:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout1-1.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.81) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Jun 2000 01:29:49 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout1-1.nyroc.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA28993 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:28:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from aylee.twcny.rr.com ([24.92.245.52]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53939U80000L80000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:28:01 -0400 Received: from rob by aylee.twcny.rr.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 136k8O-0003QI-00; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:25:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:25:52 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Names of characters Message-ID: <20000626212552.A12814@twcny.rr.com> References: <0006261922130D.01794@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <0006261922130D.01794@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 06:40:40PM -0400 X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: rob@twcny.rr.com On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 06:40:40PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > ! - uebu > " - lubu > # - moibu > $ - rupnu bu > % - centi bu > & - joibu > ' - y'y > ( - tobu > ) - toibu > * - tarci bu > + - sumji bu > , - slaka bu > - - vu'ubu, ni'ubu (those name distinct characters in APL) > .. - denpa bu > : = pi'ebu > / - fi'ubu (or is that ÷?) > < - mleca bu > = - dunli bu > > - zmadu bu > ? - paubu > @ - abubu (?) > [ - kebu > \ - se'ebu > ] - ke'ebu > > Comments? Suggestions? Nice. All those names seem appropriate, and abubu is quite clever. Of course, there's more characters that need names... As long as we're being Unixy here (I assume that's where \ - se'ebu came from), ~ could be 'zdani bu'. ` is used for quoting in certain computer languages, but not in Lojban, so it could be 'zoibu' - does that work? Which has higher precedence, zoi or bu? ^ = te'abu _ = cnita bu? | = pagre bu? (the 'pipe' concept in various computer contexts) { = kalri bu } = ganlo bu - I'm not so sure about these - do 'open' and 'close' work here? ; = vaubu And what is a space called? Is it sepli bu? Now a question about Lojban in general. When you want to use these concepts in Lojban, do you have to write out the word, or can you use the symbol? For example, can I quote with matching "s instead of lu/li'u? What about writing numbers like 262144? -- Rob Speer