From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu Sep 23 09:17:40 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 59918 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2004 16:17:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 Sep 2004 16:17:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Sep 2004 16:17:39 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CAWHm-0002jW-CU for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:17:34 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CAWGi-0002is-3m; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:16:28 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:16:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.252.1.53] (helo=mite.int.cec.wustl.edu) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1CAWG9-0002ia-2G for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:15:53 -0700 Received: from mite.int.cec.wustl.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mite.int.cec.wustl.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8NGFgVI010530; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:15:42 -0500 Received: from localhost (adam@localhost) by mite.int.cec.wustl.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id i8NGFfUH010527; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:15:42 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: mite.int.cec.wustl.edu: adam owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:15:41 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <154.4034b04c.2e844069@wmconnect.com> Message-ID: References: <154.4034b04c.2e844069@wmconnect.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-archive-position: 8667 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: adam@pubcrawler.org X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: "Adam D. Lopresto" From: "Adam D. Lopresto" Reply-To: adam@pubcrawler.org Subject: [lojban] Re: what fi'u *can't* do, and what can do it instead? X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23077 On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > In a message dated 2004-09-23 5:21:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, John Cowan < > jcowan@reutershealth.com> via > ecartis@digitalkingdom.org 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 -- Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ The truth is out there. Anyone know the URL?