From lojban-out@lojban.org Wed Oct 09 13:29:57 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 9 Oct 2002 20:29:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 52563 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2002 20:29:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 9 Oct 2002 20:29:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Oct 2002 20:29:55 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17zNWl-0005bb-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 13:33:55 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17zNWE-0005b7-00; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 13:33:22 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 09 Oct 2002 13:33:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miranda.org ([209.58.150.153] ident=qmailr) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 17zNWA-0005ax-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 13:33:18 -0700 Received: (qmail 8235 invoked by uid 534); 9 Oct 2002 20:29:17 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:29:17 -0600 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: [Announcement] The Alice Translation Has Moved And Changed Message-ID: <20021009142917.C3704@miranda.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jjllambias@hotmail.com on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:24:42PM +0000 X-archive-position: 2071 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Jay F Kominek From: Jay F Kominek Reply-To: jkominek@miranda.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:24:42PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la camgusmis cusku di'e > > >Then how would *you* say "23, where the 3 has been rounded off"? > > I think it was something like {reciji'ima'u}, {recici'ini'u}, > depending on the type of rounding off. But I have never had > the occasion to say something so odd yet. Plain {reciji'i} > or {ji'ireci} would work for "around 23". I have to relay figures with uncertainty like that on a regular basis at work. (Where I work on software processing numerical data from a research satellite. However anyone dealing with measurements and uncertainty in them would love the official use of ji'i) I've got to stumble around by saying things like "23, give or take the one's place" and other such impreciseness. I'd kill to be able to say "reji'ici" to coworkers. -- Jay Kominek UNIX is all about covering up the fact that you can't type.