From pycyn@aol.com Mon Mar 04 06:43:49 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 4 Mar 2002 14:43:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 89271 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2002 14:43:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Mar 2002 14:43:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r02.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.98) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2002 14:43:48 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v32.5.) id r.185.4844ccf (3957) for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:43:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <185.4844ccf.29b4e20c@aol.com> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:43:24 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] Letteral, letter words and symbols. To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_185.4844ccf.29b4e20c_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 13509 --part1_185.4844ccf.29b4e20c_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit xorxes' comment that {abu} is not a name by itself struck a chord in my head. In order to use any name referrentially, you have to precede it by {la}. In order to use {abu} to refer to a character, you have to precede it by {me'o}. So the cases is nicely parallel -- see also {pa} as the name of a number needs {li} . But, it turns out that both can follow {la}. So, if we want "names" for letterals or numerals outside of a mathematical context, we have them, too -- in just the right place. --part1_185.4844ccf.29b4e20c_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit xorxes' comment that {abu} is not a name by itself struck a chord in my head. In order to use any name referrentially, you have to precede it by {la}. In order to use {abu} to refer to a character, you have to precede it by {me'o}. So the cases is nicely parallel -- see also {pa} as the name of a number needs {li} . But, it turns out that both can follow {la}. So, if we want "names" for letterals or numerals outside of a mathematical context, we have them, too -- in just the right place. --part1_185.4844ccf.29b4e20c_boundary--