From phma@oltronics.net Sun Dec 03 19:15:29 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@oltronics.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 4 Dec 2000 03:15:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 46992 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2000 03:14:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 4 Dec 2000 03:14:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 4 Dec 2000 03:14:47 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA20887 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:14:24 -0500 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.34, neofelis, , 207.15.133.34 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 22:14:34(EST) on December 03, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] common words Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:08:36 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0012032214130K.11907@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat On Wed, 31 Dec 1969, Jorge Llambias wrote: >la pier cusku di'e > >>I suggest {selmifrygau}, since {selmifra} means x1 is plaintext for x2 in >>code >>x3. > >I don't know, that just rearranges the places, doesn't it? >Wouldn't it mean "x1 codifies x2 into x3 using code x4"? selmifra: x1 is plaintext for x2 in code x3 mifygau: x1 makes ciphertext x2 out of plaintext x3 using code x4 Now if "selmifygau" is selmif + gau, then it's x1 makes plaintext x2 out of ciphertext x3 using code x4. But if it's sel + mifygau, then it's x1 is ciphertext made by x2 out of plaintext x3 using code x4. I fail to see how you get your interpretation. phma