From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Mar 01 13:02:40 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 1 Mar 2002 21:02:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 69703 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2002 21:02:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Mar 2002 21:02:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2002 21:02:39 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18282; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:02:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C7FEC4A.8080805@reutershealth.com> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 16:02:02 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorge Llambias Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Jorge Llambias wrote: > Yes, but who uses those strange shifted letteral words? What > are they for? Well, in (anglophone, anyway) physics, one must distinguish between G, the universal gravitational constant, and g, the acceleration due to gravity in some situation (typically close to the surface of the Earth). That's why JCB allocated four sets of letterals for Latin and Greek upper and lower case. The shifts were an attempt to cut back on this ferocious waste of cmavo and to waste only a few. :-) -- John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_