From lojban+bncCICntNPQBRCv65vgBBoEuCPQmA@googlegroups.com Wed Jun 02 17:22:24 2010 Received: from mail-gw0-f61.google.com ([74.125.83.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OJyCP-0008QU-Lf; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:22:24 -0700 Received: by gwaa12 with SMTP id a12sf7345027gwa.16 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:22:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:mime-version :received:received:date:in-reply-to:x-ip:references:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:reply-to:precedence :mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=20OfrpbCymIupzb0HDl+4kDPLvoW+RYfJzGHTXBCzwM=; b=LXmi16jJR1IaookbLXg55K4bz47Nhn7NiI5+tKb82OHXVqzaBJLy+2pebO5eOe8/1Z RsSZgHYE3gEuvW1EX4ensLJJDU2dYeqDkJjVCb4rcNxdyCOA+av4kWCalQ4J/SsedaTb 3258NA/Md3GFaAxw7SjBwLoNgfGnKMtPIqqYU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:x-ip:references :user-agent:x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive :sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; b=YmiqUJE3H6ByNDSBZwk9s13pR0cigzsv3Gx77YMxsiZZlu6zYqmQKxgIfvu4E1ykQO 4or2ZanY3s6wG6/9gxFWqNrQI+nJ2r6FcKUl1GPtFqFKl4XkizUqkVJvu1eDImQE1Fob PMoCjVWCij0KPg9JLMRh2tTlKj32K89hD9z5Y= Received: by 10.100.233.8 with SMTP id f8mr294037anh.38.1275524527159; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:22:07 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.101.145.32 with SMTP id x32ls1947294ann.0.p; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:22:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.175.34 with SMTP id c34mr294061anp.67.1275524526170; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:22:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 40g2000pry.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:22:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:22:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-IP: 173.196.20.139 References: <556832.6378.qm@web81302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <959500ee-ea4d-4acf-9353-f2c990ba25a7@t34g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <676f1fae-2f5a-4609-8727-49c9083a8715@h20g2000prn.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <02364613-a7cb-4428-8916-bcad33923e03@40g2000pry.googlegroups.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: Named multiples From: Lindar To: lojban Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 "Lojban has an unambiguous grammar, which is based on the principles of logic." Well, it -could- be la... or lo... or maybe even le... what do you think he meant? I don't know, there isn't a regular rule that we follow. >_> I really, truly, honestly believe that your idea is a bad one. That's not regular grammar. It -is- an exception. It is ambiguous in meaning. A computer could not parse it. So your choice isn't an available option, as I see it. In my opinion, you have three options: 1. It implies {lo}, because that is the generic gadri. 2. It implies {le}, because that has been the standard, and it makes sense for greetings such as {.i coi pendo} more so than option 1. 3. It implies {la}, because we shouldn't have an inconsistency between cmevla names and selbri names, so we can say {.i coi xalbo}. Don't know what else to tell you. =\ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.