From chris@balcomie.freeserve.co.uk Wed Aug 25 16:29:46 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cmailm3.svr.pol.co.uk ([195.92.193.19]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C07D6-00051E-Ux for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:29:46 -0700 Received: from modem-119.hassium.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.74.119] helo=crh37) by cmailm3.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1C07D1-0005kg-CO for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:29:39 +0100 From: "Chris Howlett" To: Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: logical proofs? Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:29:51 +0100 Message-ID: <000101c48afb$6c347ca0$774a883e@crh37> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <20040823183626.GM3257@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-archive-position: 746 X-Approved-By: chris@balcomie.freeserve.co.uk X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: chris@balcomie.freeserve.co.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners > > The rest of you should note that this isn't even *close* to > begginer Lojban. > I concur - although the maths is quite fun (I'm a maths grad). But I do have one lojban query: What does broda do, and how does it work? My wordlist gives it as "predicate var 1: 1st assignable variable predicate (context determines place structure)", which makes it sound like a pro-bridi. So why not just use the bridi itself? Curiously, Chris.