From cowan@ccil.org Thu May 31 16:01:11 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 31 May 2001 23:01:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 58063 invoked from network); 31 May 2001 23:01:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 31 May 2001 23:01:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 31 May 2001 23:01:10 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 155bRN-0003wN-00; Thu, 31 May 2001 19:01:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] zo by In-Reply-To: from Jorge Llambias at "May 31, 2001 10:55:39 pm" To: Jorge Llambias Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:01:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 7422 Jorge Llambias scripsit: > It seems that {zo by} can refer (at least) to the Lojban word "by", > to the letter "b" and the (Lojbanic) sound of that letter. "zo by" is the word "by". "me'o by" is the letter "b". I don't know how to write the sound /b/; probably "la'e me'o by" would be clear enough. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter