From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu May 25 11:15:47 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3456 invoked from network); 25 May 2000 18:15:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 25 May 2000 18:15:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 25 May 2000 18:15:03 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@skunk.reutershealth.com [204.243.9.153]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA25938 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 14:15:01 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <392D6D8F.A09F1E49@reutershealth.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:14:39 -0400 Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] Two questions for the RECORD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan "James F. Carter" wrote: > So there's a bit of a problem when they all jump on Goldilocks as a team. > Does anyone want to try transforming ko'a to work in that case? It would > definitely take re-gadri-zation, but someone up-to-date on the grammar and > semantic issues is going to have to say how to do it. There are explicit conversion cmavo to map a set or mass to individuals, individuals or a set to a mass, and individuals or a mass to a set: they have an in-mind element since there is usually more than one way to do it. These cmavo are especially useful when applied to a pro-sumti, of course. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)