From lojban-out@lojban.org Wed Jan 26 14:27:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 80027 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2005 22:27:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Jan 2005 22:27:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2005 22:27:11 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Ctvd0-0007JR-Tv for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:27:10 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ctvcr-0007IV-QZ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:27:01 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Ctvcf-0007IF-TG for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:26:49 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:26:49 -0800 Message-ID: <20050126222649.GO20235@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20050126132740.61853.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> <20050126194142.GT20235@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <41F80A9A.6020106@eubot.com> <20050126213417.GL20235@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <6862c94d793e32d6c4fd70874e40074c@online.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-archive-position: 9356 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: minimal lojban X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23737 On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:23:05PM -0600, Adam D. Lopresto wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Rapha?l Poss wrote: > > > > >Le 26 janv. 05, ? 22:34, Robin Lee Powell a ?crit : > > > >>On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:24:42PM -0500, Brian Eubanks wrote: > >>>2. Reduce each Lojban utterance into a collection of binary > >>>(2-sumti) predicates. > >> > >>Can you tell me how that works with, say, "da klama de di mi do" > >>? > > Why wouldn't it just be something like > > A isa klama-instance > A first-sumti B > A second-sumti C > A third-sumti D > A fourth-sumti E > A fifth-sumti F Because "Reduce each Lojban utterance into a collection of binary(2-sumti) predicates." would preclude that. Hence my question. Why they're doing it that way, I don't know. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/