From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Mon Dec 2 20:11:58 1991 Return-Path: Date: Mon Dec 2 20:11:58 1991 Message-Id: <9112022039.AA15521@relay1.UU.NET> Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Aphorism (corrected) X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: <9111272103.AA10478@relay1.UU.NET>; from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Nov 27, 91 3:56 pm Status: RO la mark. clsn. cusku di'e > I worked out the meaning of John's algorithm early on, but it did me no ^^^^^^^^^ "aphorism"; been turbo geeking too long, Mark? zo'o > As I understand it, "ge" > conjoins bridi-tails, which must start with *selbri*, no leading sumti. > John, wanna check on that? Did I miss something? These bridi have leading > sumti. "ge...gi" can also connect whole bridi, not just bridi-tails. In fact, geks are the general forethought connectives; they connect everything except tanru units and math operators (which are made to look like tanru), and constructs that don't allow forethought at all. -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban