Received: from mail-pb0-f61.google.com ([209.85.160.61]:58839) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1T6aXm-0008KM-7Q; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:10:29 -0700 Received: by pbbrp2 with SMTP id rp2sf199282pbb.16 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:10:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:date:from:to:subject:message-id :mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:in-reply-to:user-agent :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post :list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe :content-type:content-disposition; bh=BBPny1OQPPKUabYQ8PTaHBgnkdG804oUtjIfsUo6yRg=; b=NQqaSt+FOx34f+yYaPQMf77Az//BNnpxgqzKuf9zZQVu5tYqaWYz9msjSZcOAzFMFh iLJZjKY/GTwQEIir4kiGlUG3d3YhhiRjGs6Nip0/chfOG6j6Lnpdm8sjG+qGIlF4uc7F k7muNrvy9cBaOIDrd7ZVZ4ndbkdTsCGzZ19iDPDsUZ8d7IutnjgOyp/3aWrOLTY5Dhwb /YIHrjN9uqIUrRtaD7dstylm7l7UulnPgbnIBaUYURPdpu/v7mi/wV3MvEQtodZhs8FC TCj07H5mev1YJ0PeHkXs9nM98cyEJl9VElkTvlbPVyUGawCCYIpeICwAyLigELQ6AsJy b5fw== Received: by 10.68.232.9 with SMTP id tk9mr96321pbc.0.1346217016002; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:10:16 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.68.141.75 with SMTP id rm11ls4366087pbb.6.gmail; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.88.7 with SMTP id bc7mr73206pab.2.1346217015613; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.88.7 with SMTP id bc7mr73205pab.2.1346217015603; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stodi.digitalkingdom.org (mail.digitalkingdom.org. [173.13.139.236]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id nv4si1469379pbc.2.2012.08.28.22.10.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.236 as permitted sender) client-ip=173.13.139.236; Received: from rlpowell by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1T6aXe-0008KJ-7r for lojban@googlegroups.com; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:10:14 -0700 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:10:14 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] carna, my turn. Message-ID: <20120829051013.GQ28376@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@googlegroups.com References: <20120826203514.GV10684@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> <503D168A.9080504@gmx.de> <20120828202841.GJ25027@samsa> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120828202841.GJ25027@samsa> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Original-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.236 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:28:41PM +0200, v4hn wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:05:46PM +0200, selpa'i wrote: > > Am 26.08.2012 22:35, schrieb Robin Lee Powell: > > > x1 turns about vector x2 towards direction x3, turning > > > angular distance / to face point x4 > > > > How can an angular distance and a point faced be the same sumti > > place? > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 01:35:14PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > The basic mechanism here, in programming terms, is polymorphism > > in the x2 and x4 places. > > That's just what polymorphism means... > > The idea is that you can still disambiguate any sentence with > {carna}, if the set of sumtis referring to possible angular > distances and the set of sumtis referring to possible points in > space you can face are always disjunct. > > Is this concept already used somewhere in lojban? I believe there are other sumti that work something like that, but I'm not remembering any examples off the top of my head. Briefly poking at the gismu list, ragve, danfu, zanru. Others, I'm sure. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. .i ko na cpedu lo nu stidi vau loi jbopre .i danfu lu na go'i li'u .e lu go'i li'u .i ji'a go'i lu na'e go'i li'u .e lu go'i na'i li'u .e lu no'e go'i li'u .e lu to'e go'i li'u .e lu lo mamta be do cu sofybakni li'u -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.