From adam@pubcrawler.org Tue Aug 24 04:53:47 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 04:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal.seas.wustl.edu ([128.252.21.102]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzZru-0004wP-Lh for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 04:53:39 -0700 Received: from clarion.cec.wustl.edu (clarion.cec.wustl.edu [128.252.21.3]) by postal.seas.wustl.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i7OBn6F25218 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:49:07 -0500 Received: from localhost (adam@localhost) by clarion.cec.wustl.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i7OBrah8029122 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:53:37 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: clarion.cec.wustl.edu: adam owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:53:36 -0500 (CDT) From: "Adam D. Lopresto" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: ibaubo In-Reply-To: <20040823224713.GL3257@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: References: <200408230639.36111.phma@phma.hn.org> <20040823184559.GP3257@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040823224401.GA18730@fysh.org> <20040823224713.GL3257@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Status: No, -6.4 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Report: -6.4/5.0 ---- Start SpamAssassin results -6.40 points, 5 required; * 0.0 -- Message-Id indicates a non-spam MUA (Pine) * -0.0 -- Has a valid-looking References header * -0.4 -- Has a X-Authentication-Warning header * -0.4 -- Has a In-Reply-To header * -0.5 -- BODY: Contains what looks like an email attribution * -4.7 -- BODY: Bayesian classifier says spam probability is 10 to 20% [score: 0.1089] * -0.4 -- BODY: Contains what looks like a quoted email text * 0.0 -- Reply with quoted text ---- End of SpamAssassin results X-archive-position: 8549 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: adam@pubcrawler.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:44:01PM +0100, Zefram wrote: > > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > >"the storryteller can't count" isn't a language. I might generously > > >accept it as a description of a (class of) language(s), but that > > >seems an odd usage. > > > > One could perhaps say {bau lo kancu na kakne}, "in language: something > > that is unable to count". That looks more reasonable to me, though > > there is still the issue of whether a language can count at all. > > Right. Why not use ".i se bau bo" ? Since the form only seems to make sense with event bai markers, perhaps .i te bau bo na'e ka'e kancu > > Does "ibaubo" do what I think it does? It looks to me like it turns > > the entire following sentence, up to "i", into the argument of a "bau" > > clause attached to the previous sentence. > > Correct. > > > I didn't realise one could do that with "bau". > > You can do it with any BAI. > > -Robin > > -- Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ Vegetables aren't food - they're what food eats! --Strange Attractor