From lojban@lojban.org Mon Mar 12 16:00:16 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 13 Mar 2001 00:00:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 54693 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2001 00:00:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2001 00:00:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-2.cais.net) (205.252.14.72) by mta1 with SMTP; 13 Mar 2001 00:00:15 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org ([209.8.89.177]) by stmpy-2.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2D003r80696; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:00:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010312184718.00bd9900@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1035/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:59:13 -0500 To: pycyn@aol.com, lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] I almost caught the train In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Logical Language Group At 11:59 AM 03/12/2001 -0500, pycyn@aol.com wrote: >I think the {snada/fliba} for catch/miss the (buried) train is Lojban at its >best; I agree. >to the side: "almost 100" is {so'a panono}; I don't think so. There is no grammar for numbers so that is a string of 4 digits, the first of which is large. > although {so'a} isn't marked as >defaulting to "all," it presumably works like all those other guys. soso'a or even soda'a or if you want the base n solution, da'ada'a I might also try panononi'u, but this requires that the convention be interpreted as intended. >"only" we've been around on so many times I can't remember all the readings >for it, but {po'o} doesn't fit (and I seem to recall that I never liked it >anyhow): the present cases seems to amount to something like "I am >surprised/relieved that it is so little as" - a complex UI. >I have no suggestion for "barely over 100" off the top of mu head. panoso'u lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org