From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Mon Aug 27 19:09:18 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 28 Aug 2001 02:09:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 24484 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2001 02:08:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Aug 2001 02:08:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta07-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.47) by mta3 with SMTP; 28 Aug 2001 02:08:32 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.255.40.122]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010828020830.TQHH710.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 03:08:30 +0100 Reply-To: To: Subject: RE: [lojban] useless selmaho? (was: RE: mine, thine, hisn, hern, itsn ourn, yourn and theirn Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 03:07:19 +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) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 10201 xorxes: > la and cusku di'e > > >In case I'm not being clear, I just mean I'm in favour of > >mo'e da = some number and mo'e lo spaji = a suprising number. > > I think I may prefer that interpretation, too. But then > what is {mo'e re spaji}? Two surprising numbers. Two minutes spent thinking about it, and I can't think of a possible usage for it. > Is it a twice-surprising number, > a number which is two surprises? Oh, maybe it could be a number which is two surprises. XXX knows what that could mean, though. > (BTW, can a number be a spaji in Lojban?) groan. Make it jai spaji, to be on the safe side. --And.