Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 86535 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2004 16:56:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Jun 2004 16:56:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Jun 2004 16:56:06 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BaHE8-0005XI-Rs for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:56:01 -0700 Received: from dsl081-049-134.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.49.134] helo=chain.digitalkingdom.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BaHDA-0005WK-3r; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:55:00 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:54:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [216.189.121.177] (helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BaHCz-0005V9-5a for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:54:49 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8FB794959; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:53:32 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <63.2d4eaa18.2e007b04@wmconnect.com> In-Reply-To: <63.2d4eaa18.2e007b04@wmconnect.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200406151253.32918.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 8090 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Pierre Abbat From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@phma.hn.org Subject: [lojban] Re: the long and short of it X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22539 Content-Length: 637 Lines: 28 On Tuesday 15 June 2004 12:17, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > In a message dated 2004-06-15 11:25:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > > lojban@yahoogroups.com writes: > > How to say "long (in time)" in lojban? > > E.g. "There is a long night". > > {clani} is is for space dimension. > > I need a brivla, so ze'u doesn't work. > > > > co'o mi'e kir > > why not still use "clani" (and "tordu" for short) and use 'time' in the > dimension slot? Makes sense to me - time is usually by far the longest dimension of an object. Time alone is real, the rest imaginary, a quaternion. phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa