From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Tue Nov 16 12:41:00 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 15 Nov 1993 09:43:09 -0500 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 15 Nov 1993 09:43:01 -0500 Message-Id: <199311151443.AA04700@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0283; Mon, 15 Nov 93 09:42:43 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 0979; Mon, 15 Nov 93 09:41:54 EDT Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 01:41:00 +1100 Reply-To: Nick Nicholas Sender: Lojban list From: Nick Nicholas Subject: Re: more Eaton, anyone? To: Jorge LLambias Cc: jorge@phyast.pitt.edu, lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu In-Reply-To: <9311132036.AA14927@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu> from "Jorge LLambias" at Nov 13, 93 03:36:41 pm Status: RO X-Status: To Jorge LLambias respond I thus: #> #la nitcion cpedu le pinka #> .i go'i .i na spaji fe lenu do puba sabji led'iu pinka vauvauzo'o #frili fa le nu smadi le du'u mi ba zukte da kau i xu go'i #i le nu go'i na xamgu mi va'o le drata be du'o do I think you've lost me. "It's easy to assume I intended to do something" --- ok. "Is it?" What I think you intended is "Did I?" --- and there is no convenient way in Lojban of anaphorising a nested selbri; I made a proposal last month, but doubt it'd fly. "My intending (presumably) to do so is not good for me in the context of those other things, according to you." Sorry? #> #> A single word for "douanier" would be bargu'ekrabe'itekykurji #I don't care either way, since hopefully, such words will be rare. Count on it... #> Would people be happy with {krasi} and {fanmo} for "to" and "from" in lujvo? #> bargu'ekrabe'i. Hm... #(In any case, I prefer gugbarkrabe'i ) Why do you persist in analysing your veljvo so carefully and perceptively? ;) === Momenton senpretende paseman mi retenis kaj # NICK NICHOLAS. Melbourne Uni, kultis kvazaux & Australia. Now with moustache. senhorlogxan elizeon # nsn@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Dume: & >nsn@krang.vis.mu.oz.au< [Victor Sadler, _Memkritiko_ 90] # nsn@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au