From bob-a@houston.rr.com Sat Dec 18 09:38:33 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:39:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.44] helo=ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CfiXJ-00055S-KK for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:38:33 -0800 Received: from [192.168.1.15] (cs2417585-62.houston.rr.com [24.175.85.62]) by ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id iBIHcUPa009722 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:38:31 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41C3C25F.9060203@houston.rr.com> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:38:39 -0600 From: Bob A User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: grasping lojban References: <20041218132511.25453.qmail@web41908.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041218132511.25453.qmail@web41908.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com id iBIHcUPa009722 X-archive-position: 950 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.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: bob-a@houston.rr.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners By degree of a word, I mean concepts like, "very", "somewhat", "not", "slightly", "completely/infinitely", "rather", etc.. For example, Arovėn has logical operators for "and", "or", "xor", inverted "xor", and such that operate on clauses. Plurals are usually marked for collective, which functions as a set, or partitive. There are set operators for union, disjoint union, intersection, exclusion, exclusive union, and so forth, which are inflected for whatever position they take. Operand elements are filtered and combined into the resulting set, and all operators are inflected for depth when nested. How does all this work in lojban? Also, how do you make if-then constructions? Where can I find an explanation of motion-tenses? mi'e aizek