From jordimastrullenque@yahoo.com Wed Nov 03 19:14:10 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:14:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from web51604.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.209]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CPY4W-0003QG-2j for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:14:00 -0800 Message-ID: <20041104031326.44792.qmail@web51604.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [212.78.158.19] by web51604.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:13:26 PST Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:13:26 -0800 (PST) From: jordi mas Subject: [lojban] Re: how to say manifold To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20041104000619.GA8449@thedave.chch.ox.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 8946 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jordimastrullenque@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list > However, pe'i {cmacyvrici} misses the point of > manifolds, which is that they > are locally Euclidean. That the Euclidean spaces > they locally resemble can > vary is perhaps secondary. You call that "historical reasons". > Maybe {diklykurfycanlu} aka {klokurca'u}. Maybe or not maybe, that's better than any fu'ivla. > If you have a better word for "Euclidean space" than > {kurca'u}, substitute > that in. No, sorry, I just run out of those. --jordi ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com