From rob@twcny.rr.com Fri Mar 16 17:01:46 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 17 Mar 2001 01:01:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 3855 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2001 01:01:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Mar 2001 01:01:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.165) by mta3 with SMTP; 17 Mar 2001 02:02:50 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with ESMTP id f2H0wwm00252 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:58:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from riff ([24.161.104.50]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:58:58 -0500 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14e53k-0000N4-00 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:59:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:59:03 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Train catching ut nunc Message-ID: <20010316195903.A1386@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <20010315023042.G27942@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: ; from xod@sixgirls.org on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:29:17PM -0500 X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:29:17PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > > How the hell _DO_ you talk about the selma'o in lojban text, anyways? > > 'CAhA' is, of course, not a valid lojban word. > > > le do pu tadji cu banzu .i le selma'o poi do pu djica cu selcmene zo ca'a But then how do you express a selma'o like 'UI4'? {le cmavo be lo'u ui vo le'u}? I see no other way of quoting a selma'o made of more than one Lojban word than by using the error quote. And what if it was {le cmavo be lo'u pa vo le'u}? Would you use 'zei' to achieve this? {le ui zei vo zei selma'o} I won't even ask about the asterisks... -- Rob Speer