From richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com Mon Oct 16 15:01:08 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_1_0); 16 Oct 2000 22:01:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 28243 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2000 22:01:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 16 Oct 2000 22:01:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chalfont.mail.uk.easynet.net) (195.40.1.44) by mta3 with SMTP; 16 Oct 2000 22:01:06 -0000 Received: from rrbcurnow.freeuk.com (tnt-6-253.easynet.co.uk [195.40.201.253]) by chalfont.mail.uk.easynet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0DCCF816D for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 23:01:03 +0100 (BST) Received: from richard by rrbcurnow.freeuk.com with local (Exim 2.02 #2) id 13l2ny-00004z-00 for lojban@egroups.com; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 06:27:22 +0100 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 06:27:22 +0100 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] years & numbers Message-ID: <20001016062722.B270@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Reply-To: Richard Curnow Mail-Followup-To: lojban@egroups.com References: <8s4ooj+9vnk@eGroups.com> <0010121656300E.08496@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i-nntp In-Reply-To: <0010121656300E.08496@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:44:23PM -0400 From: Richard Curnow On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:44:23PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > >{lo nanca be li paxa be'o nixli} (le nixli cu nanca li paxa) > >{lo nixli co nanca li paxa} > > or (worse?) > >{lo paxa [bo] nanca nixli} > > The first one seems correct, the second also sounds correct but jbofi'e seems > to think it's 16 yearling girls, and it barfs on the third. The 2nd one is just two independent terms, because the 'li paxa' is not coupled to nanca at all. The 3rd is just ungrammatical. Maybe lo paxamei nanca nixli is the nearest thing that will parse. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard P. Curnow rpc@myself.com Weston-super-Mare United Kingdom http://go.to/richard.curnow/