Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from FINHUTC.hut.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0qWV3S-000023C; Fri, 5 Aug 94 22:35 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI by FINHUTC.hut.fi (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5823; Fri, 05 Aug 94 22:34:21 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 5818; Fri, 5 Aug 1994 22:34:21 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 8187; Fri, 5 Aug 1994 21:33:22 +0200 Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 15:33:57 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: current cmene project To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu In-Reply-To: <199408021839.AA05122@nfs1.digex.net> from "Jorge Llambias" at Aug 2, 94 01:59:22 pm Content-Length: 1133 Lines: 25 la lojbab pu cusku di'e > > The classifier word is that - a classifier. With names of cities, you could > > indeed do this, but "cmacr-" on mathematical terms should not give you the > > place structure of cmacu. la xorxes. cusku di'e > I was thinking of things like foods, animals, plants, etc, where a structure > like "pertains to" doesn't make that much sense. What mathematical terms start > with "cmacr-"? From what language were they borrowed? Mathematical texts will > look very funny if every third word begins with "cmacr-". So they will, but all technical texts in Lojban will be riddled with similar- looking type 3 le'avla. If Lojbanic mathematics gets to be really important, we can start constructing type 4 le'avla without prefixes. The chief languages of math(s) in the Real World are French (for the French), Russian (for the Russians), and English (for the English-, Spanish-, German- Italian-, and Japanese-speakers). Chinese math is still an open question. See the letter in JL9:11. -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.