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From:         "Peter L. Schuerman" <plschuerman@UCDAVIS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: <xoi> and fuzzy roses
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On Sat, 2 Dec 1995, Steven M. Belknap wrote:

> No, thats not quite right. Here's another try:
>
> leti rozgu pafi'uci xoi melbi leta rozgu fo le mi'o ckilu
> This rose is fuzzily 1/3 more beautiful than that rose on our scale.
>
> leta rozgu pafi'uci xoi melbi letu tujli le ka sumne kei le mi'o ckilu
> that rose is fuzzily 1/3 more pleasant than yonder tulip in odor on our scale.

How would one express "that rose is fuzzily 1/pi more pleasant than yonder
tulip"?  Or "this rose has the fuzzy-odor-pleasantry-value of the cosine
of that rose, expressed in radians"?  Or even "this rose is fuzzily more
beautiful than that rose by the amount of the circumference of a circle
defined by the radius of the second rose"?  I think these would be
valuable expression is *any* language.

Peter Schuerman                                    plschuerman@ucdavis.edu
                        Co-editor, SPECTRA Online
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