From phma@webjockey.net Wed Jun 05 19:48:45 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 6 Jun 2002 02:48:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 3475 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2002 02:48:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Jun 2002 02:48:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 2002 02:48:45 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 82C403C49C; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:48:38 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] lightning Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:48:35 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20020606022924.A7637@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20020606022924.A7637@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0206052248350U.02104@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Wednesday 05 June 2002 22:29, Shane J. H. Sniffen wrote: > what does one do when one is unsure of whether something is the origin > of lightning or the thing "struck"? lidni requires that you know > what's what. i suppose you could settle for tanruing it to lidni, but > that's too unspecific it seems. is there a way to like join or meld > the x2 and x3 of lidni? Can you give an example of when you're unsure? The only one that comes to mind is intercloud lightning, which could be expressed as {simxu be fa le'i dilnu be'o lindi}. phma