From kyrzar@hotmail.com Thu Sep 23 14:27:24 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: kyrzar@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 93757 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2004 21:27:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m17.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 Sep 2004 21:27:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n1.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.64) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Sep 2004 21:27:22 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.154] by n1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Sep 2004 21:27:18 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:27:18 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 974 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-compose X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 66.218.66.64 From: "doug" X-Originating-IP: 67.160.140.142 Subject: Re: what fi'u *can't* do, and what can do it instead? X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=152182067 X-Yahoo-Profile: kyrzar78 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23079 --- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, "Adam D. Lopresto" wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 MorphemeAddict@w... wrote: > > > In a message dated 2004-09-23 5:21:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, John Cowan < > > jcowan@r...> via > > ecartis@d... writes: > > > > > >>> I personally loathe fi'u, because it's in PA instead of VUhU, which > >>> makes things not work as you'd expect at *all*. For example, (1+2) > >>> over (2+3) can't be done using fi'u: > >> > >> Fi'u is meant to be used to make simple fractions, not for generalized > >> division. It's so you can say things like three-and-a-half without > >> worrying about operator priority. > >> > > > > So is there any cmavo for generalized division which could be used to express > > (1+2) over (2+3)? > > If not, then MEX has another point against it (although I'm not keeping > > score). > > fe'i, as in li vei pa su'i re ve'o fe'i vei re su'i ci ve'o pe'i ba'e zo me'o cu zmadu zo li leka vi mapti