From lojban-out@lojban.org Tue Jan 20 17:05:16 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 87900 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2004 01:05:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 21 Jan 2004 01:05:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2004 01:05:16 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1Aj6nz-0004Bf-JL for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:05:15 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1Aj6nz-0004BE-EH for lojban-out@lojban.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:05:15 -0800 Resent-From: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:05:15 -0800 Resent-Message-ID: <20040121010515.GA14172@digitalkingdom.org> Resent-To: lojban-out@lojban.org Received: from dsl081-049-134.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.49.134] helo=chain.digitalkingdom.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Af6kq-00033X-13; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:13:28 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:13:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1Af6ki-00032f-L0 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:13:20 -0800 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:13:20 -0800 Message-ID: <20040110001320.GH18943@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040109221918.GU18943@digitalkingdom.org> <20040109234339.12942.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040109234339.12942.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-archive-position: 6955 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 X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on chain.digitalkingdom.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.61 Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:05:15 -0800 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: shorthand for conversations X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21449 On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:43:39PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > The cononical way of doing "Foo: Bar" in Lojban is: > > > > la alis zo'u mi cusku le mupli jufra la bab zo'u mi ji'a cusku > > le remoi mupli jufra > > I would take those to mean "As for Alice, I said an example > sentence (to her?)." "As for Bob, I too (in addition to someone > else) said a second example sentence (to him?)." The sentence is > said by the speaker, and Alice and Bob are mentioned by the > speaker. Under normal circumstances, of course. But if you saw: la .alis. cusku lu pamoi jufra li'u la .bab. cusku lu remoi jufra li'u la .alis. zo'u cimoi jufra you would understand what had just happened, right? If it's really an issue of confusion, the author just has to say: mi pilno lu ko'a zo'u jufra li'u le sinxa be lu ko'a cusku lu jufra li'u li'u at the top somewhere. -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