From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Wed Nov 17 10:47:09 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 49021 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2004 18:47:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 17 Nov 2004 18:47:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Nov 2004 18:47:09 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CUUpJ-0007Qn-8z for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:46:45 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CUUoJ-0007PZ-VE; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:45:44 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:45:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from web41902.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.153]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CUUo6-0007OV-No for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:45:30 -0800 Received: (qmail 46738 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Nov 2004 18:44:59 -0000 Message-ID: <20041117184458.46728.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.43.74.149] by web41902.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:44:58 PST Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:44:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200411170508.57675.phma@phma.hn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 9006 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 From: Jorge "Llambías" Reply-To: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Subject: [lojban] Re: directions X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=142311107 X-Yahoo-Profile: jjllambias2000 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23409 --- Pierre Abbat wrote: > Currently we have a set of gismu (berti, stuna, snanu, stici) and a set of > tense markers (be'a, du'a, ne'u, vu'a) for denoting directions. The gismu can > be made into lujvo, so we can say {le bloti cu bersicyberberti le gusydi'u} > "the boat is north by east of the lighthouse", but how do we say "the boat is > going east northeast"? You could say {le bloti cu bersunstuna muvdu} or {le bloti muvdu lo bersunstuna}. Why not use the same convention for the tenses? {le bloti mo'i be'a du'a du'a zvati} > Then there are directions in degrees, minutes, and > seconds, such as {li nyxacipi'erexapi'enoxavy farna le fanmo le krasi be le > nu caxmati xirma klama} (that one comes up in my CAD drawings because of > roundoff error). How do we use one of those as a selbri or as a tense? {va'e} will convert a number o lerfu-string into a scale selbri. That would seem to fit here. {fi'o} will convert the selbri to a tag. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com