From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Nov 14 11:51:50 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:51:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.22) id 1AKjyr-0008Po-W5 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:51:45 -0800 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:51:45 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: COI, UI (was Re: cfari) Message-ID: <20031114195145.GY15718@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20031114193251.GW15718@digitalkingdom.org> <20031114194318.98026.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031114194318.98026.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6685 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 11:43:18AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:25:36AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > > 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. > > le dinju cu mitre li pare lo ka galtu > The building is 12 meters high. > > How would you use {li pa re my}? In a long block of physics text most likely, containing things like le te junta jai fancu fo li so pi xa my fi'u sy te'a re I wouldn't expect to see it in anything approaching normal conversation. -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