From rob@twcny.rr.com Fri Mar 01 19:24:47 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 2 Mar 2002 03:24:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 6955 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2002 03:24:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Mar 2002 03:24:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout6.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.177) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Mar 2002 03:24:46 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id g223Oku22489 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:24:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:24:44 -0500 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16h08b-0000UG-00 for ; Fri, 01 Mar 2002 22:24:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:24:45 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies Message-ID: <20020302032445.GC1806@twcny.rr.com> References: <199.31114e6.29b187d4@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <199.31114e6.29b187d4@aol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2572649 X-Yahoo-Profile: squeekybobo On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:41:40PM -0500, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > Yes, but who uses those strange shifted letteral words? What > are they for?> > > Well, you seem to use them in preference to the lower case ones at this > point, for one thing. You just don't refer to them correctly. 'A' is just an abbreviation for {abu}; this does not say that {abu} actually refers to a capital 'A'. There is no abbreviation for {tau abu}, which does refer to a capital 'A', which is justifiable because as far as I know, {tau} and its friends have not been used in any actual Lojban text. -- la rAs:r noi sarji zo gumri poi gis5