From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Oct 16 16:35:10 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:35:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.22) id 1AAHdu-00045M-Rm for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:34:54 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:34:54 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: {Archivist} Intention of gunma? Message-ID: <20031016233454.GM1016@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <5.2.0.9.0.20031016144431.03358320@pop.east.cox.net> <20030703004556.95391.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> <20030702213610.GH3306@digitalkingdom.org> <20030703004556.95391.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20031016144431.03358320@pop.east.cox.net> <5.2.0.9.0.20031016192035.03266b80@pop.east.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20031016192035.03266b80@pop.east.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6451 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:21:15PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > At 01:22 PM 10/16/03 -0700, Robin wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:50:54PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > >> At 04:39 PM 10/15/03 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: The > >> "intent" (however sloppy) was > >> > >> le cecmu cu gunma mi joi da (unless I am the only component > >> of the mass). > >> > >> but I believe current thinking would make it > >> > >> le cecmu cu gunma mi ce da > > > >My question was, can argument 2 be incompletely specified? > > I thought I indicated not - that se pagbu would work for > incompletely specified component lists, so we don't need gunma to > be exactly the same thing. And I agree. In fact I said so in my long Lojban yesterday, although that was selcmi rather than pagbu. I think selcmi is the better comparitor. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui