From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 26 11:53:44 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:53:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CttEW-0003yk-MB for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:53:44 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:53:44 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: terminators Message-ID: <20050126195344.GZ20235@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1064 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 Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:09:57AM -0400, Betsemes wrote: > I'm familiar with "terminators" in programming languages, > althought they feel odd in a human language. Pascal's Begin.... > End blocks come to my mind at this time. I have a question on > terminators. Obviously "terminator" is an English word, but in a > Lojban text, how we would call them? I'm not sure it's ever come up. :-) I'd probably just call them {lo fanmo cmavo}, but {lo cmavo poi fanmo lo gerna stura} is more accurate. -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/