From - Wed Feb 14 12:49:08 1996 Received: from wnt.dc.lsoft.com (wnt.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.7]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id AAA19707 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:28:15 -0500 Message-Id: <199602130528.AAA19707@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by wnt.dc.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.0a) with SMTP id 1E550ED0 ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 23:52:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 18:21:28 +0000 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: GEN: almost-PROPOSAL: intervals X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: O X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 864 Goran: > 2. xe'i (with asperations of te'i-hood) > New cmavo; I do not know which selma'o, but it needs to combine > freely with tenses. Meaning of {xe'i } should be " > distance/interval". xe'i could be taken to signify only temporal > distance, and let fe'exe'i take care of the spatial ones, or > could signify distance in space-time (type of sumti decides which > it is, like xe'i lo mitre is clearly spatial, and xe'i lo nanca > is clearly temporal). I prefer this, because (1) has the further disadvantage of the redundancy of calling an interval/distance small or large and then saying exactly how big it is. I believe that the omission of this feature from the current language is just an oversight; I think it would be in there if whoever made the system had remembered they were needed. coo, mie and