Received: from mail-ob0-f189.google.com ([209.85.214.189]:41476) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1T9kPx-0005sO-1r; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:19:25 -0700 Received: by obbun3 with SMTP id un3sf1381798obb.16 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:19:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:references:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=IN6yekrHlDoLqQehD8roT2mqL18YWYjn4TOWcQEEQgk=; b=hzIgW5BICMYK2gfiQm8ZCidqDNi38+l906b6iF2cwdMV//iadlVpc2nOhK5bbiUVzz m++cPQouVU28w7Himv2j17iNyKEGlWZkgjnfxW0BaC4s1Ml+B8TpmZqWAtuphEVDbqUa gI9K8+VR2NgX2TJZtudmSzxFgnuXOuGW+GyvhYGqhGKQP5fQ5cimC7JPV21o+pzCLfQ6 9MgOhHRurw/Qt+ez0AUtRhbjUmsO2N1ODa65w5UQWQjK3D9UOwsRrTOpw0HPXMH4a05e dKh5mMmCir+cCQHs2ahbvqTzTNQpc0JmSmxkQblZM8kq8hmc91xfnuoG5T72OduLUIro mp8A== Received: by 10.52.37.74 with SMTP id w10mr740440vdj.8.1346969954527; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:19:14 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.220.223.69 with SMTP id ij5ls55390vcb.6.gmail; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:19:13 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.30.133 with SMTP id s5mr758638vdh.10.1346969953940; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fm12g2000vbb.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:19:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <184969d0-735f-4e78-a862-60e387fd8f70@c4g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> References: <369b1b83-0407-4ccf-aa59-89a5ffbaf473@googlegroups.com> <02c05dfc-7cc4-4ec6-a331-d915e2e9cdbf@s5g2000vbj.googlegroups.com> <07b7573a-45c9-44be-9d03-a74aa2b1127d@q20g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> <5048FE76.70008@plasmatix.com> <184969d0-735f-4e78-a862-60e387fd8f70@c4g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <9fc0be1f-dbd7-46c3-b99b-e01b7fa3164e@fm12g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Where should I use sets and where should I use masses? From: ianek To: Lojban Beginners X-Original-Sender: janek37@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: ls.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of janek37@gmail.com designates internal as permitted sender) smtp.mail=janek37@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / *{simxu}, of course On 7 Wrz, 00:15, ianek wrote: > On 6 Wrz, 21:50, selpa'i wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Am 06.09.2012 21:39, schrieb ianek: > > > >> If you restrict "simxu" to the cliques of graph theory, you can't use > > >> it for something like: > > > >> lo zajba pu simxu lo ka ce'u ce'u sanli kei gi'e se morna lo remna pramide > > >> "The gymnasts stood on one another's shoulders and formed a human pyramid." > > > So what {simxu} really means? That the graph is connected? Arguments > > > based on something that sounds good in a natural language are > > > suspicious for me. The definitions of Lojban words are (in most cases) > > > in a natural language, but it doesn't mean that they should be > > > ambiguous. > > > It's not ambiguous. The individuals in simxu1 do simxu2 to each other. > > The only difference is that instead of saying "the members of set x1 > > reciprocally (do) x2" you have the individuals in simxu1 do it directly. > > There is really no use for sets in such cases, it's just a waste of time > > and makes things unnecessarily inconvenient. > > But the gymnasts don't stand on each other shoulders. More, there's no > pair standing on each other shoulders, there's no reciprocity. So pe'i > it's really bad example for {simxo}. Either that, or {simxo} is very > ambiguous. > > mu'o mi'e ianek > > > > > > > > > mu'o mi'e la selpa'i > > > -- > > .i pau mi me ma .i pa mai ko mi jungau la'e di'u > > .i ba bo mi va'o lo nu nelci lo nu me ma kau cu barkla > > .i va'o lo nu na nelci cu denpa ti lo nu mi drata -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en.