From jjllambias@hotmail.com Fri Mar 01 12:53:22 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jjllambias@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 1 Mar 2002 20:53:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 12824 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2002 20:53:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m12.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Mar 2002 20:53:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.167) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2002 20:53:22 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:53:22 -0800 Received: from 200.49.74.2 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 01 Mar 2002 20:53:21 GMT To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Bcc: Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 20:53:21 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Mar 2002 20:53:22.0022 (UTC) FILETIME=[1FA9A860:01C1C163] From: "Jorge Llambias" X-Originating-IP: [200.49.74.2] X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=6071566 X-Yahoo-Profile: jjllambias2000 la pycyn cusku di'e >But is a mass of text a text? Some masses of texts, sure. Maybe even all masses, can you think of a case where it wouldn't be? >A mass of dogs is not a dog. Almost always not. A mass of one dog is a dog. No set of dogs is a dog. ><>Test question: when you write out what is said as {abu prami by} is the > >written form exactly the same or is it {a prami b}? > >It's either exactly the same or it is {A prami B}, never {a prami b}.> > >How exactly are you using the capitals? Are they abbreviations for the >letteral words? A is to abu as 1 is to pa. This is a convention that was developed in the Wiki, I looked but I can't find the page. It has also seen some usage already. (I did not participate in that proposal, but it seems like a good idea). >This seems to add a new wrinkle to an already confusing (if >not confused) situation, since capital letters have different letteral >words. Yes, but who uses those strange shifted letteral words? What are they for? mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com