From nicholas@uci.edu Thu May 24 02:27:40 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: nicholas@uci.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 24 May 2001 09:27:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 42219 invoked from network); 24 May 2001 09:27:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 24 May 2001 09:27:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e4e.oac.uci.edu) (128.200.222.10) by mta1 with SMTP; 24 May 2001 09:27:39 -0000 Received: from [128.195.187.70] (dialin53c-64.ppp.uci.edu [128.195.187.74]) by e4e.oac.uci.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA21173 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 02:27:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: nicholas@e4e.oac.uci.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <990693481.269.54291.l10@yahoogroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 02:31:25 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Lessons From: Nick Nicholas > Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 03:01:17 > From: "Jorge Llambias" >Subject: Re: Lessons >Only don't call them lambda variables, please... :) God no! (Well, maybe in a note, of the type "if you're ever doing third year computer science...") I'm thinking "underline this space" instead. >I'll try to read them this weekend. How can I get them using CVS? >I know how to update the files I already have, but I couldn't >figure out how to get new files. cvs checkout should get current versions of all files, updated or not. >>My current thinking, btw, is that forethought >>connectives are not worth mentioning in an introductory course, as they >>are too infrequently used. >Hmmm... My impression is that {ge} is far more frequent than {jai}, >for example, but I can't prove it. So also pycyn. OK, I think you've talked me into it; *I* don't like them, but at least there's only "ge" to really bother with... This will take it to 15 after all. Not happy with the last few lessons; then again, it doesn't seem like I'm happy with much of anything, lately... :-1/2 Nick Nicholas, TLG, UCI, USA. nicholas@uci.edu www.opoudjis.net "Most Byzantine historians felt they knew enough to use the optatives correctly; some of them were right." --- Harry Turtledove.