From - Tue Nov 26 09:48:28 1996 Reply-To: ia@stryx.demon.co.uk Date: Tue Nov 26 09:48:28 1996 Sender: Lojban list From: Iain Alexander Subject: Re: subordinate interrogatives X-To: LOJBAN%CUVMB.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU To: John Cowan X-UIDL: dc7017844b3ebaee504d39b4fb5f3297 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 892 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