From cowan@ccil.org Sat Jun 10 21:00:02 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14615 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2000 04:00:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 11 Jun 2000 04:00:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta2 with SMTP; 11 Jun 2000 04:00:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA01608; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:28:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:28:15 -0400 (EDT) To: Pierre Abbat Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] rupnu In-Reply-To: <0006102358080E.00838@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Pierre Abbat wrote: > In lesson 20, Alice and Rick go to a restaurant, and the prices are stated in > rupnu. What's the exchange rate between the Lojbo rupnu and the American dollar? "Rupnu" refers to "some currency unit". When unspecified, it is the local currency unit: pounds in the U.K., dollars in Poland :-). Since we don't know where the story is happening, we can imagine any currency unit, or an imaginary one. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know