From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Dec 15 09:35:40 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:35:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GvGyC-0002zr-6l for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:35:40 -0800 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.245]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GvGy7-0002zg-Uu for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:35:39 -0800 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so289745ana for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:35:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=L3xzwweAT/qhBTNveCb2tuCxDAvsaOMHiohJdwvZT53KReiJ39gGvG8QUUhjdNjXa5VkPKRFipqtm5A2KkqaS8Lt8dFW4xv62jKgDATL9YFkbts3YLckcf18rtXLRwPXaR/LqshJF+WI965lEBrN0+ZuVxkhpK2YxPeI1Y9iJvQ= Received: by 10.48.216.8 with SMTP id o8mr236192nfg.1166204131356; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:35:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.116.6 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:35:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <925d17560612150935s30a3d880i7168e2afc173ff48@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:35:31 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Quick questions In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061212222520.40200.qmail@web81415.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3844 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 12/15/06, Matt Arnold wrote: > > If I understand {si'e} correctly, > {pasi'e} means "x1 is the first portion of mass/totality x2", > {resi'e} means "x1 is the second portion of mass/totality x2", > {rosi'e} means "x1 is all portions of mass/totality x2", > {su'osi'e} means "x1 is at least some portions of mass/totality x2". > {so'esi'e} means "x1 is most of the portions of mass/totality x2". The ma'oste definition is a bit confusing, but the idea with {si'e} is that it takes fractions, not integers: fi'uresi'e = pimusi'e: "x1 is half of x2" fi'ucisi'e = picira'esi'e: "x1 is a third of x2" fi'uvosi'e = piremusi'e: "x1 is a quarter of x2" ... pisu'osi'e: "x1 is some fraction of x2" piso'esi'e: "x1 is most of x2" piso'asi'e: "x1 is almost all of x2" pirosi'e: "x1 is all/the whole of x2" mu'o mi'e xorxes