From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jan 18 15:53:36 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:53:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H7h4Z-0005w3-QR for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:53:36 -0800 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H7h4W-0005vI-P5 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:53:35 -0800 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF905CE6DB for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:53:20 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: FW: quantified number sumti, fences, and meshes Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:50:38 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4021D41AF@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> In-Reply-To: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4021D41AF@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ansi_x3.4-1968" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701181850.38661.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -21 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 3917 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thursday 18 January 2007 11:56, Turniansky, Michael wrote: > Well, I was originally going to say something like (teacher to > 5-year-old): "Alex, the group of 3s that you have written are very neat, > but your 7 2s are crooked", but then I thought that would necessitate > getting entangled with "lerfu" or "sinxa", and not what I wanted at all, > so that's why I tried to give an example that required an actual number > as a sumti. (Another example I decided against was with house numbers > (the numbers used for addresses on houses) -- "The 2 1s are falling off > the door". le do ze me'o re cu korcu .i le re me'o pa cu farlu fi le vorme mu'omi'e pier