Message-ID: <3145DA26.6E8D@ccil.org> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:10:14 -0500 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: TECH: magnitude Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 806 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Mar 12 17:25:11 1996 X-From-Space-Address: - I have been kicking around the idea of a new cmavo of selma'o KI, "ki'i'i" temporarily. A sumti tcita involving this will be a specific magnitude, thus: 1) mi dansu le bisli ve'a ki'i'i lo mitre be li pa I dance on the ice over-interval one-meter. 2) mi pu klama le zarci zi ki'i'i lo mentu be li reno I went to the store merely 20 minutes ago. 3) mi pu klama le zarci zu ki'i'i lo mentu be li reno I went to the store fully 20 minutes ago. This allows some nonsense, like "mi pu ki'i'i klama le zarci, which calls for a magnitude but doesn't give one, and "mi dansu le bisli be'a ki'i'i le co'e", which attaches a magnitude to a direction cmavo, but still I think it works, and with no YACC changes. Comments urgently solicited. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban