From xod@sixgirls.org Tue Oct 02 02:33:15 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 2 Oct 2001 09:33:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 20008 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2001 09:33:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Oct 2001 09:33:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 09:33:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f929XDm28803 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 05:33:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 05:33:12 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: The Pleasures of goi (was: zipf computations & experimental cmavo In-Reply-To: <20011002004915.A1021@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Rob Speer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:49:33AM -0000, mark@kli.org wrote: > >(indeed, getting into the habit of saying {rodada'o} for > > "everything" (instead of just {roda}) wouldn't be such a bad idea, > > as {da} gets bound sometimes. It's wordier than it should be, but > > better than nothing). > > Why use {da} if you're just going to cancel it afterward, anyway? Because you want to claim existence for only a single sumti? I used this in my rant concerning "if, then" on the Wiki, and Lojbab was confused. I do it (use dada'o) to be tidy with my memory. Lojban contains a virtual machine and it's a good habit to deallocate memory when you are done using it. The fact that > 'roda' and 'noda' create assignments which go unused (when used to mean > 'everything' and 'nothing') has been bothering me for a while. Why are those > concepts not expressed by rozo'e/nozo'e, or maybe rozu'i/nozu'i? rozo'e? rozu'i? I don't understand any of them! -- It's said that Mullah Omar has met two non-Muslims in his life. Others say even that's not true. Sami ul-Haq, Osama bin Laden's closest friend in Pakistan, runs the "University for the Education of Truth," a fundamentalist institution that educated and trained nine out of the Taliban's top 10 leaders.