[lojban] Re: mekso samples.

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:18:13AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:14:49AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > Robin:
> > > > Also, I wouldn't read <I> in English as "less than sign, I, more
> > > > than sign", so I expect the Lojban won't sound like that either.
> > > 
> > > Ummm, that's *exactly* how I read it in English.  I might
> > > alternatively say "capital i in angle brackets".  How would you
> > > read it?
> > 
> > It depends on what the brackets represent. If they represent the
> > expected value, for example, I would read it as "the expected value
> > of I". I don't know what they represent in this case.
> 
> Neither do I.  Can you show me a reference to this "expected value"
> usage?  I've never heard of that before.

BTW, on the off chance anyone's interested, much of the data used to
generate the LaTeX is in
http://www.lojban.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/lojban/grammar/rats/mex.tsv

-Robin

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