From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Nov 14 11:32:56 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:32:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.22) id 1AKjgZ-0007xQ-Ri for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:32:51 -0800 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:32:51 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: COI, UI (was Re: cfari) Message-ID: <20031114193251.GW15718@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20031114190835.GV15718@digitalkingdom.org> <20031114192536.38115.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031114192536.38115.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6679 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 Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:25:36AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:01:06AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > > Numbers with letters as digits would not be so > > > straightforward, but what would they be used for? The usual > > > talk of using letters for the units of dimensioned numbers is > > > nonsense because units don't work like that in Lojban. > > > > I've never heard 'the usual talk'. You mean things like "li pa > > re my" for 12 meters? > > Right. But 12 meters is {lo mitre be li pare}. "li pa re my" seems perfectly reasonable if such a format has been previously agreed upon. -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