Received: from access1.digex.net by nfs1.digex.net with SMTP id AA07020 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Fri, 5 Aug 1994 15:34:30 -0400 Received: by access1.digex.net id AA28475 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for lojbab); Fri, 5 Aug 1994 15:33:58 -0400 From: Logical Language Group Message-Id: <199408051933.AA28475@access1.digex.net> Subject: Re: current cmene project To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 15:33:57 -0400 (ADT) Cc: lojbab@access.digex.net (Logical Language Group) In-Reply-To: <199408021839.AA05122@nfs1.digex.net> from "Jorge Llambias" at Aug 2, 94 01:59:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1108 Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Fri Aug 5 15:34:33 1994 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab 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.