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Re: [lojban] fancu



In a message dated 10/1/2001 10:24:55 PM Central Daylight Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:


Will {fancu} do?


Just fine; no wonder I couldn't find it on any lujvo list.

<I'm never sure what to do with its x4. The way I would use it
(or at least how I would have before this discussion) is:>

I suppose x4 is just the formula that defines the function, which might well have another name, so "area of a circle" would be a function  and the x4 would be "pi r squared" appropriately written out.  Of course if the standard way of referring to a function just is its definition then x4 is sorta useless.

<le du'u makau mamta ce'u cu fancu loi danlu loi fetsi [zi'o]
Who their mothers are is a function from animals to females.
But I suppose pc would disapprove>

Indeed he would: fill in the places and what do you get: {le du'u la elizabef mamta la djan}, a proposition.  So {la du'u makau mamta ce'u} is a function from a pair of things, the first female, the second any animal, to a proposition.  Not what is wanted. And I don't see how anything that starts out {le du'u} is going to end up anywhere else.