From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Feb 19 09:06:17 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:06:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JRVv5-00018M-WE for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:06:16 -0800 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.229]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JRVv1-00017B-Fy for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:06:15 -0800 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c47so2174798wra.20 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:06:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=n0nMbC/k2hdcf9oR7CbodGVoEzyxjSzZaWQuo0y/FbI=; b=K6mof0eDW60dni7MdTg/ZTgXKzLG8hHRCRiqgcoufNBXSlL91/OI3GQ1NteN+qnC1tQJ+KKdqAsAJPKNcEyNKSFJewRyvicvj//hTsePv0jReMzERedE8CHRYMvO3ALl7kJfhq1T15SO65QbWJEIrGIDzGjdiCUi+sOlsoSDPWs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ek7/OcyKGCHQxit12XdUz+2ddZXyX0tlPX6vZQyhyVoR1ExITQ8d+6iCqAqKq8apUhwhgpRhkcBGE6wfGkHnHRkSUjLFCrnbCBnO6OOmKYXEtvPSdkqJlYKtI20wQxYR7qPs653Dc5LCFHRbCR+moAYBO8q55F9YJKpAIDtaILs= Received: by 10.140.251.1 with SMTP id y1mr4860477rvh.107.1203440763409; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:06:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.69.2 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:06:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <96f789a60802190906p6bc091a7odd871a3b157fc29b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:06:03 -0500 From: "Michael Turniansky" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Nth root of unity In-Reply-To: <12d58c160802190828v7b047ctd2427fe1990f89ba@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200802172028.20159.phma@phma.optus.nu> <6887.65810.qm@web62510.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <96f789a60802190712p142d7175ncd999a831dcc0e20@mail.gmail.com> <12d58c160802190828v7b047ctd2427fe1990f89ba@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 364 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Feb 19, 2008 11:28 AM, komfo,amonan wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008 10:12 AM, Michael Turniansky wrote: > > > [...] "ka'orelcimdyna'u" is > > > > parsed as "ka'o relcimdyna'u", the sumti "an imaginary amount of > > complex numbers". > > Rather, the nonsensical "i complex numbers", where "i" is the quantifier. Well, that's what I meant by "an imaginary amount". Not any unspecfic amount, but specifically, an "i" amount of them. Just wanted to save space typing, but now we had to waste three times the amount of space :-) > > > [...] If you WANTED to add cmavo to a lujvo, you have to do it > > > > with the aid of "zei" ("lujvo glue") in between. > > > This is true for "ka'o", but not for cmavo in general, as many cmavo have > their own rafsi. > No, it's true for ANY cmavo. If you wanted to add a rafsi OF a cmavo (if it has one), then you wouldn't need the zei. There, now the imprecision is on the other foot. :-) --gejyspa