From xod@sixgirls.org Fri Aug 24 22:24:13 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 25 Aug 2001 05:24:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 5661 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2001 05:24:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 25 Aug 2001 05:24:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 25 Aug 2001 05:24:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7P5OBW04077 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 01:24:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 01:24:10 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: mine, thine, hisn, hern, itsn ourn, yourn and theirn (was[lojban] si'o) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Nick NICHOLAS wrote: > Oh my God. > > There is only one explanation for this, which is that Lojban Central > wanted normal sumti, and not just numbers, to be ordinals. > > So you can say the apple-th man, or the I-am-going-to-the-store-th > instance of insubordination. I think it's a wonderfully powerful construction! I'm actively glad you brought this to my attention! This is another way we can compress facts out of selbri into cmavo. Good thing. Elegant. Tasty. ----- "It is not enough that an article is new and useful. The Constitution never sanctioned the patenting of gadgets. [...] It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures." -- Supreme Court Justice Douglas, 1950