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 TAA05400 for <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 19:43:36 -0400
Message-Id: <199510172343.TAA05400@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 2C183A6C ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 19:42:35 -0400
Date:         Tue, 17 Oct 1995 19:39:09 EDT
Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU
Sender: Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU
Subject:      Re: Qs: VhVhV & PAPAMEI &c.
X-To:         lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
Status: OR
X-From-Space-Date: Tue Oct 17 19:43:38 1995
X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU

And:
> (2) Is {re re mei} a suivla meaning "two pairs", or is it a sentence
> meaning "there is a twenty-two-some"?

Twenty-two-some.

> Either way, what does one add
> to get the right bracketing? {re boi re mei}?

Yes.

> (4) Can anyone remind me what the technical name is for the
> constituent that complements LE (e.g. the bracketed constituent
> in {le [speni be la lojbab]})

sumti-tail

> (5a) What do VI, ZI, VEHA & ZEHA used as sumtcita mean?

I think there is agreement that {ve'a <sumti>} means "in the medium
interval given by <sumti>", and similarly for ZEhA.

To me, {va <sumti>} means "at a medium distance given by <sumti>",
and similarly for ZI.

In all cases, the sumti is the interval or distance in question.
But that meaning for VI and ZI is not agreed to by all.

> (5b) What was the upshot of the discussion of a while ago about
> how to specify exact extents for VI, ZI, VEHA & ZEHA?

There was no upshot, I think.

Jorge