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 NAA05546 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 13:46:19 -0400 Message-Id: <199510101746.NAA05546@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 B09743F9 ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 13:20:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 13:18:24 EDT Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: questions X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Tue Oct 10 13:46:23 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU la goran cusku di'e > 1) I seem to remember that somebody used "ko'a poi du ko'e" form. Is it > possible? Parser doesn't like it (I guess it doesn't think du is > a selbri). Is this legal sumti? Is it gendra? I tried it and it parsed all right: ({ko'a } VAU) > 2) I tried to find a word for "set", and the closest I could find were > te porsi (which implies that the set has some ordering relation > defined) and se cmima (which does not imply that the elements in x2 > are the complete enumeration of x1's contents). Is there a better > choice? I'm not sure about the places of {su'omei}, but if they are "x1 is the mass of components x2 which are the members of set x3", then {te su'omei} should work. (For non-empty sets.) > 3) How does one say "any two of the man, the woman and the kid"? That > is, how does one extract n elements from the ce-specified set? The > best I could think of is "re lo cmima be le nanmu kuce le ninmu kuce > le verba". Is there a way of doing it without cmima? Something with > LU'A? I tried "re lu'a ny. ce ny. xire ce vy.", but parser won't > allow that. The problem there appears to be with {xi}. The parser doesn't like it after a BY. {re lu'a ny. ce ny.boi xire ce vy.} seems to work. Jorge