From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Nov 05 08:23:57 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 05 Nov 2004 08:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CQ6sX-0004dk-B3 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 08:23:57 -0800 Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:23:57 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: L. for beginners chapter 7 Message-ID: <20041105162357.GK25376@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <1609c1c637.1c6371609c@imap.epfl.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1609c1c637.1c6371609c@imap.epfl.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 866 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:39:52PM +0100, GREGORY DYKE wrote: > Does ri refer to the last sumti opened or the last sumti closed?? Well, if the sumti hasn't been closed yet, then the "ri" would be inside it and hence referring to something that contained itself. That strikes me as a Bad Idea. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/