From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 19 20:59:10 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Dv5ji-0005AK-8b for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:59:10 -0700 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.202]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Dv5jg-0005AB-SM for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:59:10 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i1so1406898wra for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:59:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=hIgnDg71j91ArBvaU5jOvCPsPgRu9g/uJ7ZQukAQ+6MAGApIQn25Bn4Ct2b5txrWpiGa5rUlakYbTsaIKxuf2vdJ9GHUp+tOXS0xm1hLS/kC9j1csEeFsFYfK1JnyEGsI0K0z+7ZnZE6FtcjOtwWh3pNRhuw57lLabL7pNgBEgM= Received: by 10.54.109.20 with SMTP id h20mr999265wrc; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:58:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.125.8 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:58:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5ccdc7530507192058147b7a6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:58:21 -0400 From: "J. Scott Jewell" To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Hello In-Reply-To: <20050720021926.GZ2444@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_12105_32197809.1121831901490" References: <200507182229.45622.sekenre@ukfsn.org> <5ccdc753050719070725aa9507@mail.gmail.com> <20050720021926.GZ2444@chain.digitalkingdom.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 1602 X-Approved-By: thatskotkid@gmail.com 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: thatskotkid@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_12105_32197809.1121831901490 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 7/19/05, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >=20 > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:07:41AM -0400, J. Scott Jewell wrote: > > I think that works pretty okay. Though, because I love to nitpick, > > I'm wondering about cmaricfois. With Lojban's left-grouping rule > > for modifiers, wouldn't that describe a small-tree field, i.e. a > > field of small trees? >=20 > Well, it's a name, so it can mean anything, but probably, yes. >=20 > > Also, if that's the case, how would you go about describing a > > small tree-field? Would "cmajevricfois" ("small-and-tree-ish > > field") technically be correct, >=20 > It's not the best way; the best way is cmakemricfois Ah yes, very nice! I had no idea that little gem existed. -Robin >=20 >=20 - la cuncuxnas. ------=_Part_12105_32197809.1121831901490 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline

On 7/19/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:07:41AM -0400, J. Scott Jewell wrote:
> I = think that works pretty okay. Though, because I love to nitpick,
> I'= m wondering about cmaricfois. With Lojban's left-grouping rule
> for = modifiers, wouldn't that describe a small-tree field,=20 i.e. a
> field of small trees?

Well, it's a name, so it can me= an anything, but probably, yes.

> Also, if that's the case, how w= ould you go about describing a
> small tree-field? Would "cmajev= ricfois" ("small-and-tree-ish
> field") technically be correct,

It's not the best way;= the best way is cmakemricfois

 Ah yes, very nice!  I had no idea that little gem existed.

-Robin<= br>

 - la cuncuxnas.
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