From treed@surreality.us Fri Nov 14 19:28:12 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:28:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from 68-234-38-146.anhmca.adelphia.net ([68.234.38.146] helo=home.surreality.us) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1AKr6V-0006Y2-NL for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:28:07 -0800 Received: from ben ([192.168.8.42]) by home.surreality.us with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AKr6e-0006YT-00 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:28:16 -0800 From: "Theo Reed" To: Subject: [lojban] Re: COI, UI (was Re: cfari) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:27:48 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <20031114194518.GB5394@skunk.reutershealth.com> Thread-Index: AcOq6D9wAWLY8ABkQRGvmXMhdbHM7gAQBDtg Message-Id: X-archive-position: 6708 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: treed@surreality.us Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list > > Right. But 12 meters is {lo mitre be li pare}. > > Alas, no; it designates something 12 meters long, not 12 > meters as a quantity. That problem is still unsolved, > leading to the kludge li paremy. How would you discuss 12 meters as a quantity without discussing something that is 12 meters long? 2 masses of 6 meters each, or what? -- Ted