From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Apr 01 19:55:44 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jgt8a-00032E-HC for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:55:44 -0700 Received: from web88009.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.37.196]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jgt8W-00031T-2t for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:55:44 -0700 Received: (qmail 79555 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Apr 2008 02:55:33 -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=ylS1KEmzp+dwBA5rmKFtiXQkyScbKPUs0JhP+jRaVQDYfm0n046weyKyMYxF6Qc2on1hlc/7I2TOw9d7ac+kvf38NBqCsceWCOrPnHYU2YTBYeuP/vIMsb0KJhboPGlbtrAcEzsgoAEp7Q7qhIKvdX5Mu1BFnlhGl9AQWUMO3QM=; X-YMail-OSG: 1q2NMxgVM1l1s69F8zZPLfjn13Qzq7FNV5cuMfwxXLA9gcX5so2tXvTCpQZ1OB7QMmZcomWc22LeDvf8ddRDkYw7KxC0rBuh8PQetuI2OFj37fNgW2OikewRk77PAz_Tw6J8fyXjcCmnFQ-- Received: from [99.229.22.193] by web88009.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:55:33 PDT Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:55:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "A. PIEKARSKI" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Squares and rectangles To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <721958.71722.qm@web88009.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 434 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 > > On 4/1/08, A. PIEKARSKI wrote: > > Using the NORALJV > > lujvvo for 'square', I would make it: > > > > {lo kubykurfa cu kurfa poi loi korbi cu dunli simxu le ka clani} > > You should either replace {poi} with {gi'e}, or use > {cu me lo kurfa poi ...}. A poi-clause attaches to a sumti. Oops! yes, of course. > > Also, {simxu lo ka dunli fi lo ka clani}, or {simxu co > dunli fi lo ka clani}, or {dunlysimxu lo ka clani}. > {le ka clani} is not quite right as the x2 of {simlu}. I was hoping someone would offer an alternative to {kubykurfa} for 'square'. 'a-cube-type-of-rectangle' is plauseable but wouldn't 'an-equally-sided-rectangle' be more obvious - something like {dunkorkurfa}? mu'o mi'e .andrus.