From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Sep 24 09:21:08 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 24 Sep 2002 16:21:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 92943 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2002 16:21:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 24 Sep 2002 16:21:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Sep 2002 16:21:03 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA12537; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:32:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209241632.MAA12537@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:20:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] rau To: opoudjis@optushome.com.au (Nick Nicholas) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: from "Nick Nicholas" at Sep 25, 2002 01:39:14 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Nick Nicholas scripsit: > In accordance with the supplicatory model: If Lojbab wrote this text, > then Lojbab must have intended "rau" to mean 'small enough' as well as > 'large enough'. Indeed, the example goes back to JCB. > The formal way of stating this without being braindamaged is: "rau" > indicates a quantity which is satisfactory for the purposes of the > perspective-holder in context [not necessarily the speaker], as they > can be inferred from context. Its reference is not constrained to being > a ceiling value ('large enough value'), it may be a floor ('small > enough value') or a median value, according to context. I support this interpretation. -- There is / One art John Cowan No more / No less http://www.reutershealth.com To do / All things http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With art- / Lessness -- Piet Hein