From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Oct 01 10:41:43 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:41:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IcPH4-0004Xz-Nh for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:41:42 -0700 Received: from web88010.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.37.197]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IcPH2-0004Xq-9f for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:41:42 -0700 Received: (qmail 83640 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Oct 2007 17:41:33 -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:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=hp2RpGaWvcz4O8YZwtyEvc3nFnQUUtFIF+TIbvxFDlOBuWDS3pDwMZDgECnaVqp68oJJZG+on5eT73v0nTugUfswERWHc3nfsmglQ5Rnhtd6Wo6rnsecc5543qqr1w1eDPOU3JwUKK4MjZTDnUgH8XAvzfYSHBi/2Q7mTU8Wl4A=; X-YMail-OSG: DlyA03wVM1lttSjnV7yg2xT8apSsEFVIsvrCGydKH.MD0XuyEbYEp40yZ9hmVAV2wg-- Received: from [99.229.22.94] by web88010.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:41:33 PDT Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:41:33 -0700 (PDT) From: ANDREW PIEKARSKI Subject: [lojban-beginners] Compataives and superlatives To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Message-ID: <493269.83626.qm@web88010.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5456 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 coi rodo I've just re-read the section in CLL on comparatives and superlatives. "more", "less", and "most" are discussed but "least" doesn't even get a mention. Then I discover a lujvo for "least": {mecrai}. So, whereas the lojban for "more" and "less" is symmetrical "most" and "least" seem to be treated completely differently. In "most", the property is inherent in the lujvo itself so there is no need for an X3 defining the property, while in "least" {mecrai}, X3 defines the property being compared. Have I got it right, or am I missing the point somewhere? Why the apparent lack of symmetry (which, after all, is good to have as it helps us remember! mu'o mi'e andrus