Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id XAA15234 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 23:44:09 -0400 Message-Id: <199509230344.XAA15234@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 97CBA629 ; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 21:34:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 23:45:34 GMT Reply-To: ia@stryx.demon.co.uk Sender: Lojban list From: Iain Alexander Subject: Re: direction, dimension X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Fri Sep 22 23:44:18 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU In message <9509220924.aa13460@punt-3.mail.demon.net> jorge@phyast.pitt.edu writes: > Yes, well, what are the two dimensions of a circle, for example? > I could understand a gismu that meant "x1 is x2-dimensional", but > I don't think that it makes any sense to say that there are exactly > two (or three) things that are the dimensions of some object. > Could you list those two or three things for a given object? Given cimde dimension x1 (property - ka) is a dimension of space/object x2 according to rules/model x3 al 0 (cf. morna, ckilu, merli, manri) clani cla long x1 is long in dimension/direction x2 (default longest dimension) by measurement standard x3 9b 90 (cf. slabu, condi, ganra, rotsu, tordu, barda, ganra, gutci, minli, rotsu) perhaps they are things like {lo ka [se] clani/ganra/condi}. -- Iain Alexander ia@stryx.demon.co.uk I.Alexander@bra0125.wins.icl.co.uk