From jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:45:16 2010 Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 16:43:57 EDT From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: coi (& tensors, in English, readable :)) To: Bob LeChevalier X-From-Space-Date: Sun May 7 16:42:20 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Message-ID: > .i mi .e ro se lanzu be mi cu kanro i o'u ui i a'o piro le fenki cu bazi purci > .i nuzba fi la cynyny. xu do i go'i i jarco loi se terpa jvinu > .i xu da pe rodo klama la intersekcn. pe la glazgob. i mi na ji'a djuno le du'u ibu mokau > BTW, xorxes, note the use of me zo va sumti tcita in the text. Yes, I did. Very sneaky of you... :) > You > complained that it was never/hardly ever used in a text, so there would > be no consequences of changing the meaning. So there. :) There is one > other way of writing it (ga'u va, no sumti), but varietas delectat. :) > Actually, the first draft had it {ga'u... xe'i lo mitre be li so'i}, but > that was really way too complicated for such a simple concept and I began > searching for other possibilities and... Heureka! Well, I can live with {te'i} as a BAI from {temci}, generalized to space. I think it's not really needed, we could do with what we have, but it doesn't matter much, there are other cmavo that are much more useless anyway. Jorge