From xod@sixgirls.org Fri Oct 12 20:01:21 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 13 Oct 2001 03:01:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 48227 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2001 03:01:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by 10.1.1.224 with QMQP; 13 Oct 2001 03:01:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta2 with SMTP; 13 Oct 2001 03:01:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f9D31KQ27368 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 23:01:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 23:01:19 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: How do you feel about this new usage? In-Reply-To: <9q7e23+oo1r@eGroups.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 thinkit8@lycos.com wrote: > (english, because it's about lojban.) > > --- In lojban@y..., Invent Yourself wrote: > > ganai le jei le glico cu jai bau darlu kei cu pabdu'i le jei le > nundarlu > > bi'unai cu zasti gi li'a le bangu cu vajni > > > > Instead of le nunbroda cu rinka le nunbrode, I prefer le jezbroda > (is > > proportional to) le jezbrode. > > > > pabdu'i = proportional. Is there a better lujvo? > > this is one of those gismu we need to get when we kick out the > cultural gismu/rafsi! anyways, that's pretty good. i think you're > really trying to say "x1 x2 dunli/simsa le ka parbi". the > tanru/lujvo just sort of abbreviates that. This is an approximation of the English phrase "inasmuch as". Their truth values are proprotional. Since all truth values are in [0, 1], I could have just as well used bare dunli. Also, x1 and x2 are jezbroda, of course. And instead of le ka parbi, it could be le ni ce'u jetnu -- 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.