From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Tue Nov 23 08:26:53 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 23 Nov 1993 13:29:31 -0500 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 23 Nov 1993 13:29:27 -0500 Message-Id: <199311231829.AA01924@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8600; Tue, 23 Nov 93 13:27:45 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 9919; Tue, 23 Nov 93 13:28:55 EDT Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 13:26:53 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: proposal for new member of SE To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu In-Reply-To: <199311231508.AA26781@access.digex.net> from "ucleaar" at Nov 23, 93 02:38:50 pm Status: RO X-Status: mi pu cusku di'e > > Well, you do need "several SE", but only two FA are required: > > > > fu le karce cu klama fa mi la bastn. la .atlantas. le dargu > > > > thanks to the "FA-suppletion" rules, which say that an un-FA'ed place falls > > into the numerically next place not yet filled. la .and. cusku di'e > How's this? I'd thought that to get 51234 with FA you just need "fu" on > the first sumti. Why not? [I don't know why I originally said you need > several FA.] Well, no. The FA-rules don't know how many places the selbri has, so omitting "fa" from the example above puts the four following sumti into the (meaningless) x6, x7, x8, and x9 places. -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.