From xod@sixgirls.org Sun Aug 12 12:00:19 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 12 Aug 2001 19:00:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 62561 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2001 19:00:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 12 Aug 2001 19:00:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta1 with SMTP; 12 Aug 2001 19:00:18 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7CJ0Hw07767 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 15:00:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 15:00:17 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] New to lojban, any suggestions? In-Reply-To: <20010812105831.Q9037@digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 9446 On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:46:20PM -0500, Steven Fodstad wrote: > > I started to keep a journal in Lojban, but it's been slow going because > > a) I've never written a journal before, b)I have an extremely small > > vocabulary, and c) I am learning to use Emacs at the same time.(Thank > > you, Gnu people, for the Alt+1,Alt+Shift+1 shortcut) > > > > As an aside--in the previous paragraph, I explicitly numbered the items. > > Is there a similar facility in Lojban? > > One way to do it: > > mo'o MAI section ordinal > higher-order utterance ordinal suffix; converts a > number to ordinal, usually a section/chapter > > There are others. For such a bullet list, mai is preferred: mai MAI sentence ordinal utterance ordinal suffix; converts a number to an ordinal, such as an item or paragraph number > > You could try my method--start a journal. There's IRC(I can't connect > > to EFNet because Identd doesn't work on my machine), > > We're not on efnet.[1] > > -Robin > [1]: Being deliberately unhelpful because no-one will use the IRC server _he_ > set up which would handle these sorts of problems. 8P I appreciate your effort and remained exclusively on your server until I realized that nobody else had moved over. I think everybody should be using digitalkingdom and not openprojects, because openprojects splits. Duh! Why would anybody keep using it? And no, we DON'T need two channels. ----- "I have never been active in politics or in any act against occupation, but the way the soldiers killed Mizyed has filled me with hatred and anger. Now I'm ready to carry out a suicide attack inside Israel," one of the witnesses said.