From treed@surreality.us Fri Nov 14 21:27:12 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:27:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from 68-234-38-146.anhmca.adelphia.net ([68.234.38.146] helo=home.surreality.us) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1AKsxf-0007m7-Le for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:27:07 -0800 Received: from ben ([192.168.8.42]) by home.surreality.us with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AKsxr-0006jE-00 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:27:19 -0800 From: "Theo Reed" To: Subject: [lojban] Re: COI, UI (was Re: cfari) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:26:49 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <20031115051825.GB9314@mit.edu> Thread-Index: AcOrOCL8Aq2DRDH3SI2269M/xymfDQAANPyA Message-Id: X-archive-position: 6712 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: treed@surreality.us Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list > How about the phrase "12 meters from here", or "five minutes > ago", or any such quantified tense that has no good way to be > specified in Lojban? Well, from here, to 12 meters away, I would say that there's 12 meters of existance. -- Ted