From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Nov 12 15:27:59 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.22) id 1AK4Ow-0008GW-BT for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:27:54 -0800 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:27:54 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: {Archivist} niltei? Message-ID: <20031112232754.GL4805@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20031112224720.GI4805@digitalkingdom.org> <20031112232313.GB30931@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031112232313.GB30931@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6634 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:23:13PM -0500, Rob Speer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:47:20PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > In the definition for temci, it says: > > > > [also age/elapsed time (= niltei)]; > > > > What is the place structure of niltei, and how does one use it? > > niltei seems pretty ill-conceived. It would seem to be the amount > that something is a time interval, while temci already is an > interval of time. Right. I suspect the intention was to be able to say things like: le temci be le nu mi jmive which you can't currently say without modification and be correct. But I'm pretty sure niltei doesn't do it. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui