From xod@sixgirls.org Sat Sep 15 15:08:44 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 15 Sep 2001 22:08:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 45629 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 22:00:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Sep 2001 22:00:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 22:00:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8FM0PB10693 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:00:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:00:24 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: accurate distances (was: My first attempt to write Lojban In-Reply-To: <20010915172110.C4356@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Rob Speer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 05:17:00PM -0000, hfroark@bigmailbox.net wrote: > > By the way how does one express spatial and temporal distances; eg, > > 30 minutes before, 15 years after, 50 meters left, and 30 meters > > south. I looked at a few of the gismu for direction and none of them > > seem to have a place for distance. > > If you want to express a reference point for the spatial/temporal direction, > though, you have to use termsets, which are ugly and only barely explained in > the two examples of them that the Book gives. > > "We will meet 15 years after today" (being more explicit): > mi'o simpenmi ba nu'i le cabdei lu'a lo nanca be li pamu This is clearly a spot that needs some research and possibly an x-cmavo. ----- A Nationalist is a Globalist who's city has been bombed.