Re: [lojban] Re: {Archivist} niltei?

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 01:07 AM 11/18/03 +0000, jjllambias2000 wrote:
>--- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@l...> wrote:
> > At 10:45 PM 11/16/03 -0800, Robin wrote:
> > >
> > >Anyways, the theory here is that you can do
> > >
> > >     li muno cu niltei lo nanca le mi mivytei
> > >
> > >for "I am 50 years old", right?
> >
> > That was the theory, whether people choose to accept it or not %^)
>I'm
> > equally amenable to dropping the x2 in favor of lo nanca be li muno
>for
> > x1.  The point was to distinguish the interval from its measurement.
>
>The interval goes in the x1 of nanca, and the measurement in x2,
>right? The double meaning of ni shows in that you are equally happy
>with either for the x1 of ni.

"Happy"?  Rather, I am "accepting".  Since I never bought into jvajvo 100%, 
I can accept that people might choose one or the other based on aesthetics 
or brevity, and both work.

>Since you can say {le mi mivytei cu nanca li muno},
>  it is not clear what {niltei} adds.

It adds niltei as a selbri for the concept.  I'm not sure I ever claimed 
anything more than that.  not all selbri will be immensely useful.


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lojbab                                             lojbab@lojban.org
Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group
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