From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Oct 25 08:04:18 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_0); 25 Oct 2000 15:04:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 10532 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2000 14:49:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 25 Oct 2000 14:49:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 25 Oct 2000 14:49:09 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16526; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:49:47 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <39F6F313.8D77C938@reutershealth.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:49:55 -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] RE^n+m:literalism References: <0010250744100R.01912@neofelis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Pierre Abbat wrote: > By the way, x3 of "mitre" is the dimension, whereas x3 of "gutci" is the > standard, x4 is an inch, and there is no place for dimension. So how do you say > that something is one foot long? You say that its length (ni clani) is mitre li pa. > On top of that, for "minli", x3 is the subunit > and x4 is the standard! Ugh. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein