From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Aug 22 13:14:13 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28211 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2000 20:14:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Aug 2000 20:14:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2000 20:14:12 -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 QAA19444; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:14:08 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <39A2DEE9.A28D2B0F@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:13:29 -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: Pierre Abbat , "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] va'u References: <39A2B1C2.638EE0E6@reutershealth.com> <0008221514170B.02704@neofelis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Pierre Abbat wrote: > > >All those of the form "xVV" (4), "xV'V" (25), and all those with more than three > >letters excluding apostrophes (uncountably many). Examples of the latter are > >ai'u, fau'a, zo'o'o'o. > > That is only countably many. You can't get an uncountable infinity of finitely > long strings of letters from a finite alphabet. Oops, yes, I meant to say "[countably] infinitely many". -- Anyway, governments are marginal || John Cowan outside totalitarian states, though || http://www.reutershealth.com attention is always focused on them || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to direct it away from what matters. \\ -- Noam Chomsky (1995)