From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Mar 17 16:09:24 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:09:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DC53E-0000Bp-U8 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:09:16 -0800 Received: from n20a.bulk.scd.yahoo.com ([66.94.237.49]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.44) id 1DC53C-0000Aj-V7 for lojban-in@lojban.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:09:16 -0800 DomainKey-Signature: Received: from [66.218.66.59] by n20.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Mar 2005 00:08:41 -0000 Received: from [66.218.66.36] by mailer8.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Mar 2005 00:08:41 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-email X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 49582 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2005 00:08:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m30.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Mar 2005 00:08:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakermmtao09.cox.net) (68.230.240.30) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2005 00:08:35 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [24.250.99.39]) by lakermmtao09.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050318000833.BVQD28448.lakermmtao09.cox.net@[127.0.0.1]>; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:08:33 -0500 Message-ID: <423A1B81.4020301@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20050317234542.GC26000@chain.digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20050317234542.GC26000@chain.digitalkingdom.org> X-Originating-IP: 68.230.240.30 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0 From: Robert LeChevalier X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@yahoogroups.com; contact lojban-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:06:25 -0500 Subject: [lojban] Re: [Archivist] Mathematical gismu. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 9596 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Robin Lee Powell wrote: > (I seem to be doing this a lot lately; see what writing in Lojban > does to you?) > > There are non-agentive (i.e. mathematical) gismu for plus (sumji) and > multiply (pilji), but not for minus or divide, that I can find. > > IIRC there are agentive versions of all four. > > Is there any paritcular reason for this, or is it just more upside > down gismu syndrome? It seemed easy enough to make lujvo for the two inverse operations, either something like reverse-add, reverse-multiply, or in a pinch mekso-divide, mekso-remove (remembering that originally, we weren't concerned about semantically derived place structure). lojbab ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EA3HyD/3MnJAA/79vVAA/GSaulB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lojban/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: lojban-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/