From cowan@ccil.org Thu Feb 28 19:56:56 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 1 Mar 2002 03:56:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 18102 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2002 03:56:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Mar 2002 03:56:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2002 03:56:55 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16geAN-0004ul-00 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:57:07 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies In-Reply-To: from Jorge Llambias at "Feb 28, 2002 10:40:40 pm" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:57:07 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan Jorge Llambias scripsit: > It's a pronoun, isn't it? It can be useful to refer for > example to "equation 1", or "example 1", etc. Perhaps so. > >I would write n, n', n'', ... as ny. ny.bu ny.bubu ... > > I suppose it depends on what the prime is being used for. > In some contexts it might be confusing, for example is {vybu} > {v'} or {w}? I knew someone would bring that up. It has to be w, and then if you need both v' and w, or both v'' and w', etc., you are S.O.L. > >(People who say "n double prime" should be dissected!) > > Ouch, that's how I've always said it. What's the more > proper way? "N second", of course. "Prime" is not the name of the mark, it just means "first" here. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_