From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Sat Aug 25 18:48:27 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 26 Aug 2001 01:48:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 84411 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2001 01:48:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Aug 2001 01:48:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta03-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.43) by mta3 with SMTP; 26 Aug 2001 01:48:25 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.255.40.45]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010826014823.LVWC23687.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:48:23 +0100 Reply-To: To: Subject: RE: mine, thine, hisn, hern, itsn ourn, yourn and theirn (was[lojban] si'o) Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:47:35 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <54.19cc2d84.28b91176@aol.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 10110 pc: > In a message dated 8/25/2001 1:46:13 AM Central Daylight Time, cowan@ccil.org > No, no. That was a serendipitous side effect. The point of me+sumti+moi > was to allow full math expressions, not just digit strings, as > numerical selbri. The typical case is me li ny su'i pa mei > 'an n+1-some' or me li ny su'i pa moi 'the n+1th'. > > Serendipity (nowadays, srilankaosity, I suppose) is the knack of falling on > GOOD things by accident. Nothing to do with this case. ta me lo spaji me'u mei = "that is a set of surprising cardinality" Is it not a good thing to be able to say that thus? --And.