From cowan@ccil.org Thu Feb 28 20:02:55 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 1 Mar 2002 04:02:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 47300 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2002 04:02:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Mar 2002 04:02:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2002 04:02:54 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16geGA-0004w2-00 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:03:06 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies In-Reply-To: from Jorge Llambias at "Mar 1, 2002 01:10:55 am" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:03:06 -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: > A set of people cannot carry a log, a mass of people can. > The question is, can a sequence of people carry a log? > > It is a reasonable question, because Lojban provides articles > for sets and for masses, but not for sequences, so sequences > will have to be a subtype of one of those. Why so? Perhaps one cannot use an article directly, but must use a LUhA. But if you insist on an article, I guess le'i works better for me than lei. -- 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_