From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 13 09:13:39 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:13:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BkPuK-0006Xs-8c for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:13:28 -0700 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:13:28 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Flexible! Except when we're not. Message-ID: <20040713161327.GO7925@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040713070716.GM7925@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040713123726.61955.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> <20040713150209.GH26687@ccil.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040713150209.GH26687@ccil.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 8240 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 Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:02:09AM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > Jorge Llamb?as scripsit: > > > What was the reason {jo'i} is not in VUhU? > > Because it is designed for specifying vectors or tuples. "pi'e" > should not be used for this purpose. That's good to know, and implies that (for example) we should be using jo'i for times and dates in most cases, but it doesn't actually answer the question. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"