[lojban] Re: Sports scores

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

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:38:08AM -0500, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
> The tricky thing is, I haven't been able to come up with any good
> ways of saying what I want in Lojban.  Ideally there'd be a single
> selbri that meant something like "In game x1, visitors x2 has
> score x3 and home team x4 has score x5 at time (inning, quarter,
> time remaining, whatever) x6" or something like that.  

To score points, off the top of my head:

lo vitke/se vitke be la <game> cu snada fi'o gradu li <points> ti'u
li <time>

Although note that "points" in the sense of points in a game is in
jbovlaste is http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/dict/nilji'a.  The
definition needs work, but it seems like it could do most of what
you want.  There's also
http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/dict/kelsnada, which again needs
work.

WRT the thing you said, I have no idea what you would put in the x1
place.  Seems that the date and the teams fully encode the game, no?

Oh, unless you mean *type* of game (soccer, hockey, and so on).  In
that case:

<game> se kelci la <team1> poi nilji'a li <points for team1> ku'o .e
la <team2> poi nilji'a li <points for team2> ku'o ti'u li <time>

-Robin

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