From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Mon Aug 16 10:18:56 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 16 Aug 1993 15:28:10 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 16 Aug 1993 15:28:04 -0400 Message-Id: <199308161928.AA14902@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0566; Mon, 16 Aug 93 15:26:47 EDT Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@YALEVM) by YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 9127; Mon, 16 Aug 1993 15:19:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 14:18:56 -0400 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Rob's signoff X-To: Lojban List To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: <9308161451.AA06132@relay1.UU.NET> from "Colin Fine" at Aug 16, 93 10:30:44 am Status: O X-Status: la kolin. cusku di'e > There is a way of saying 'dot' in Lojban - you need something in selma'o > BY, and you have the word 'bu' which converts anything to a lerfu > (something functional equivalent to a BY). > I think the quasi-official lojban for a dot is "denpa bu" (pause lerfu) - > I saw a draft of a lerfu paper last year. > > Unfortunately, this still won't do in your context, because lerfu > can be used either as (pro-)sumti or (after vei) in MEX. I suggest "me me'o denpa bu se'isni", which is a "pause-letter type-of signature". "me'o" can be prefixed to a bunch of lerfu words in the sense of "the character (string) ...". -- John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!lock60!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban.