From rob@twcny.rr.com Sat Mar 02 22:18:45 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 3 Mar 2002 06:18:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 3555 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2002 06:18:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m12.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Mar 2002 06:18:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout5.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.122) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2002 06:18:44 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout5.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id g236IgM20059 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 01:18:42 -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 ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 01:18:42 -0500 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16hPKU-0000sU-00 for ; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 01:18:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 01:18:42 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Anything but tautologies Message-ID: <20020303061842.GA2874@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 I accidentally replied to pycyn (PLEASE munge the reply-to!), so I'm forwarding his response. ----- Forwarded message from Pycyn@aol.com ----- Envelope-to: rob@localhost Delivery-date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 01:16:30 -0500 From: Pycyn@aol.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies To: rob@twcny.rr.com In a message dated 3/1/2002 9:25:53 PM Central Standard Time, rob@twcny.rr.com writes: > '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. > An odd choice, since the natural would be "a," though that ccreates serious problems; maybe italic a. "A" is the natural abbreviation for {tau abu} or {ga'e abu}. This is what I mean by the "system" being very strange. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- la rab.spir noi sarji zo gumri