From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Mar 26 15:04:26 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:04:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B70NA-0007BH-DT for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:04:20 -0800 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:04:20 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: fi'u was Re:lanzu usage Message-ID: <20040326230420.GD18619@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <5.2.0.9.0.20040326113834.030ae480@pop.east.cox.net> <5.2.0.9.0.20040326170952.030ea920@pop.east.cox.net> <200403261744.32682.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403261744.32682.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7351 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, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:44:32PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2004 17:19, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > > I never considered the use of boi to be that problematical, > > especially since it can be required sometimes even with pure numbers > > (JCB's classic example was "five 55-gallon drums"). > > Ambiguous in English is "five hundred fifty five gallon drums". The > total capacity can be 555, No, it can't, that would be "five hundred fifty five gallon drum", no 's'. -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