From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Mon Jan 29 16:01:19 1996 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 QAA07291 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:01:14 -0500 Message-Id: <199601292101.QAA07291@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 71D1F58D ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 15:32:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:42:47 -0600 Reply-To: "Steven M. Belknap" Sender: Lojban list From: "Steven M. Belknap" Subject: sentient lizards (comment on jvoplace.txt) To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 790 John's document may be between changes here: >Which brings us to > >1.3) mi lekmau do lo mitre be li pimu > I cold-exceed you by-amount-what-is measured-in-meters-as 0.5 Shouldn't this be mi lekmau do lo kelvo be li pimu (Presumably mi and do refer here to sentient lizards, or other poikilothermic persons.) Another possibility would be to build on the previous examples given earlier in the paper: le bisli ku lekmau le djacu zohe lo kelvo be li mu Query: Why use cu, isn't it more instructive to use le...ku pairs? cohomihe la stivn Steven M. Belknap, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria email: sbelknap@uic.edu Voice: 309/671-3403 Fax: 309/671-8413