From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Apr 01 09:45:29 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jgjbz-0008A1-Di for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:45:28 -0700 Received: from web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.37.191]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jgjbj-00088L-5c for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:45:27 -0700 Received: (qmail 66365 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Apr 2008 16:38:24 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=2WKGoYSkG16SYPxdPKX/JhGq28wZUZWrSLLMgnPV9bN8YE4sr050/Vbmu3aacI1BNcMUXvKruzyl+tTqRmFHCme4J0Ys//ySMfFzR/TCdfRSMSe45y5MtqeOUl9gBW3vEi45SrsQtnytYwjDIxI8OkQKQLWiTz5AcHjvDn1nVhI=; X-YMail-OSG: 1WN4Mk0VM1lmhoJmaQEHrEWyOuUv.fMh74DguXs4K4JJy.FYYruE8lyIRDGCwg6kJyzcGIu52Q-- Received: from [99.229.22.193] by web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:38:24 PDT Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:38:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "A. PIEKARSKI" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Squares and rectangles To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <188624.64948.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 425 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: totus@rogers.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Can anybody let me know the shortest way of saying 'a square is a rectangle with equal sides'? (Imagine a Grade 1 math lesson in Lojbanistan). It seems to me that that is impossible as {lo kurfa} is supposed to mean 'a two-dimensional right-angled shape/form' but in common usage has become 'square'. Using the NORALJV lujvvo for 'square', I would make it: {lo kubykurfa cu kurfa poi loi korbi cu dunli simxu le ka clani} mi'o mi'e .andrus.