From xod@sixgirls.org Mon Mar 04 06:58:59 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 4 Mar 2002 14:58:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 20128 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2002 14:58:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Mar 2002 14:58:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (216.27.131.50) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2002 14:58:57 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g24EwrK27573 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:58:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:58:53 -0500 (EST) To: lojban Subject: RE: sets, masses, &c. (was: RE: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautol... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1138703 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, And Rosta wrote: > Anyway, 2 further questions: > > 1. How DO you say "apple" (as in "the bowl was full of apple") in > Lojban? I kind of thought that's what masses were for. Like "water". > 2. Why do we insist on understanding lV'i gadri to refer to pure sets > rather than to groups/teams? What is to be gained from this? Do you mean "groups/teams" in distinction to "masses"? -- When a system is in harmony with the Tao, the compiler makes applications and utilities. When a system goes counter to the Tao, accounting logs fill the root directory.