From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jan 20 23:51:52 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:51:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F0DXM-0008Jm-Ii for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:51:52 -0800 Received: from mx3.mail.ru ([194.67.23.149]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F0DXJ-0008Je-L1 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:51:52 -0800 Received: from [212.17.3.19] (port=50440 helo=[10.0.0.38]) by mx3.mail.ru with esmtp id 1F0DXH-000JMz-00 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:51:47 +0300 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:52:03 +0600 From: Yanis Batura X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <157539525.20060121135203@mail.ru> To: Yanis Batura Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Logical connectives for multiple sumti within a single bridi In-Reply-To: <2310259263.20060121122013@mail.ru> References: <2310259263.20060121122013@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 2975 X-Approved-By: ybatura@mail.ru X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ybatura@mail.ru Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners As John Cowan, himself, has answered in the IRC, {mi .a do nelci ti .u ta} is equivalent to: {mi nelci ti .iju mi nelci ta .ija tu'e do nelci ti .iju do nelci ta [tu'u]}, in other words, it equals a cross product of both compound sumti, where {.a} has greater scope than {.u}. As John has explained,the left-most sumti connective has wider scope over the next, following the general rule about predominance of the left. ki'esai .djan. mi'e .ianis.