Return-Path: <@SEGATE.SUNET.SE:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0s8D9d-0009acC; Sun, 7 May 95 23:42 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 4136B080 ; Sun, 7 May 1995 22:42:10 +0100 Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 16:43:57 EDT Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: coi (& tensors, in English, readable :)) X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 1007 Lines: 31 > .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