Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:49:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1INWvF-0003gi-Ly for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:49:42 -0700 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.238]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1INWvC-0003gR-UG for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:49:41 -0700 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1509451wxd for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:49:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=X7/V8lWRoO7mGvQkRattcC17SJyE16FE0jakTt4KZwklm55przLCun4qpBBCN2+jqBSLfls/ZyRqbCukhDpHeYFDSd723sFmQK7fAAPSFABWOkxD+svAm3xh7WYeIjCLVQv5hT1r/40BpPVP5QhW2EIbn/3f/fOmUVQae1Hf8+Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Q/ZnmHH5Ew17hi4VBwvtrB6BKhKEvyCb5l2KtaxPWvDpdotlpv9jwwAbLW9jepYatZSZaxGaBPXYCnqRm8oLwBS0XYjM9Ay0tqTnAvDEJs8QyY8Ry7mZRSEnZNKIek7u5KphJLEyC5TkFbXIKAhSSiuztl+ncdgwXX4DuLiDW9A= Received: by 10.70.68.9 with SMTP id q9mr12922465wxa.1187714958736; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:49:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.91.19 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:49:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2f91285f0708210949v3a971fdek926dc673715c8d84@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:49:18 +0100 From: "Vid Sintef" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: cu'e In-Reply-To: <925d17560708210841wa59d50dn6627a16caff5b90c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <2f91285f0708210744w17b3d8fble593967afeb50bb5@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560708210841wa59d50dn6627a16caff5b90c@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5408 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: picos.picos@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 431 On 8/21/07, Jorge Llambías wrote: > > How can I avoid the ambiguity between distance and interval which are > > altogether covered by {cu'e}? > > I suggest {do ba cliva za ma}, {do ba cliva ze'a ma}, although the last > meaning seems much more unlikely. {ma} is a place holder for sumti. Can a tense word be an answer to such questions? Mightn't the answer be unwantedly the x2 of {cliva}? mu'o mi'e vid