From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:59:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 25611 invoked from network); 26 Nov 1996 01:21:33 -0000 Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 26 Nov 1996 01:21:32 -0000 Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <10.00030101@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 2:21:31 +0100 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:17:55 GMT Reply-To: ia@stryx.demon.co.uk Sender: Lojban list From: Iain Alexander Subject: Re: subordinate interrogatives X-To: LOJBAN%CUVMB.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 864 Lines: 24 Message-ID: In message <848939453.101117.0@cunyvm.cuny.edu> a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK writes: > > "For every x, there is something that is a truth value and > that she thinks is the truth-value of the proposition that > x is cardinality of the set y such that every z is a member > of y if and only if z is apple and I eat z" > > {....kuau da cardinality loi ge plise gi citka be fa mi} > > (where {loi} is my new way of spelling everyone else's {lo'i}/{lohi}). > > I don't have any reference materials at hand to find suitable > selbri valsi for "cardinality". {te kancu} is the best I can find. Just to make it even more impenetrable, the way to deal with the x1 of {kancu} appears to be ... ku'a'u di du da gi'anai te kancu lo'i gu'e plise gi citka be fa mi rode -- Iain Alexander ia@stryx.demon.co.uk I.Alexander@bra0125.wins.icl.co.uk