From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Tue Mar 05 07:43:04 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: arosta@uclan.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 5 Mar 2002 15:43:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 61824 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2002 20:30:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Mar 2002 20:30:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO com1.uclan.ac.uk) (193.61.255.3) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2002 20:30:52 -0000 Received: from gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk by com1.uclan.ac.uk with SMTP (Mailer); Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:03:39 +0000 Received: from DI1-Message_Server by gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:30:25 +0000 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:30:02 +0000 To: pycyn , lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] Letteral, letter words and symbols. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: And Rosta X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810630 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin Am I deluded through overhasting reading, or is this not what Jorge & John were saying all along & you were disputing? --And. >>> 03/04/02 02:43pm >>> xorxes' comment that {abu} is not a name by itself struck a chord in my hea= d.=20 In order to use any name referrentially, you have to precede it by {la}. = In=20 order to use {abu} to refer to a character, you have to precede it by {me'o= }.=20 So the cases is nicely parallel -- see also {pa} as the name of a number=20 needs {li} . But, it turns out that both can follow {la}. So, if we want= =20 "names" for letterals or numerals outside of a mathematical context, we hav= e=20 them, too -- in just the right place.