From pycyn@aol.com Mon Dec 03 17:14:55 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 4 Dec 2001 01:14:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 23446 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2001 01:14:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Dec 2001 01:14:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m07.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.162) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 2001 01:14:54 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.9.) id r.180.1cd90d (4554) for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:14:42 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <180.1cd90d.293d7d82@aol.com> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:14:42 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: thoughts on numerical language To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_180.1cd90d.293d7d82_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_180.1cd90d.293d7d82_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 12/3/2001 5:48:15 PM Central Standard Time, thinkit8@lycos.com writes: > anyway, i was saying you can just represent it as "A gives B", with > side tag "with recipient". Or "A gives to B", with side > tag "involving object". English is pretty much binary, with > prepositional side tags. It just turns out the 5 tags in lojban > makes things convenient and quick. > OK. I now get one idea of what "numerical language" means. From earlier stuff I get the idea that part of it is to have all vocabulary be numbers (? at least I think that is what I get). What else is involved? Can the fundamentals of the scheme be laid out in some clear but reelatively compact way? Would you do that (one remembers that you still haven't explained what is wrong with Lojban by you)? --part1_180.1cd90d.293d7d82_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 12/3/2001 5:48:15 PM Central Standard Time, thinkit8@lycos.com writes:


anyway, i was saying you can just represent it as "A gives B", with
side tag "with recipient".  Or "A gives to B", with side
tag "involving object".  English is pretty much binary, with
prepositional side tags.  It just turns out the 5 tags in lojban
makes things convenient and quick.


OK.  I now get one idea of what "numerical language" means.  From earlier stuff I get the idea that part of it is to have all vocabulary be numbers (? at least I think that is what I get).  What else is involved?  Can the fundamentals of the scheme be laid out in some clear but reelatively compact way?  Would you do that (one remembers that you still haven't explained what is wrong with Lojban by you)? --part1_180.1cd90d.293d7d82_boundary--