From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Mar 26 08:47:37 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 80702 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2004 16:47:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Mar 2004 16:47:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakemtao01.cox.net) (68.1.17.244) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Mar 2004 16:47:13 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org ([68.228.12.146]) by lakemtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with ESMTP id <20040326164647.QTHC26108.lakemtao01.cox.net@bob.lojban.org> for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:46:47 -0500 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20040326113834.030ae480@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: lojbab@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:40:45 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: <20040325175346.21000.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> References: <200403251231.27981.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 68.1.17.244 From: Bob LeChevalier Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: fi'u was Re:lanzu usage X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1120595 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21819 At 09:53 AM 3/25/04 -0800, Jorge "Llamb=EDas" wrote: >We should change the grammar from: > > number =3D PA [PA | lerfu-word] ... > lerfu-string =3D lerfu-word [PA | lerfu-word] ... > >to: > > number =3D PA ... > lerfu-string =3D lerfu-word ... > >Adding numbers to lerfu strings would remain relatively easy >using {PA bu}. Letters as digits don't make much sense anyway. >They are certainly not worth the trouble in boi's that they >cost us. Tell it to the people who came up with the idea of using letters for hex=20 digits. Lojban has cmavo for the 6 hex digits, but for higher bases, it=20 seems that history has indicated the use of lerfu as the convention. --=20 lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group (Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.) Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org