From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Mar 6 22:47:23 2010 Reply-To: Veijo Vilva Sender: Lojban list Date: Wed Mar 13 12:47:12 1996 From: Veijo Vilva Subject: Re: TECH: magnitudes X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1267 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Mar 13 12:47:12 1996 X-From-Space-Address: - Message-ID: mi pu cusku di'e >> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:10:14 -0500 >> From: John Cowan >> Subject: TECH: magnitude >> >> 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. > > I'd prefer a separate selma'o NEhE which would allow a slightly more > concise expression: > > mi dansu le bisli ve'a ne'e mitre li pa > > This would require a one-line addition to 'modifier_84': > > | mod_head_490 NEhE_nnn selbri_130 tail_terms_71 Both of the above schemes have the shortcoming that a reference point cannot be expressed. The following modification makes this possible: | mod_head_490 NEhE_nnn selbri_130 tail_terms_71 gap_450 | mod_head_490 NEhE_nnn selbri_130 tail_terms_71 TEhI_mmm sumti_90 {ne'e} and {te'i} would fit the already assigned cmavo quite well as {ne'a} = 'next to', {ne'i} = 'within' and {te'e} = 'bordering' co'o mi'e veion --------------------------------- .i mi du la'o sy. Veijo Vilva sy. ---------------------------------