From xod@sixgirls.org Sun Jun 10 16:00:24 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 10 Jun 2001 23:00:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 92887 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2001 23:00:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 10 Jun 2001 23:00:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta1 with SMTP; 10 Jun 2001 23:00:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5AN0MN05324 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:00:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:00:22 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] le jbozgi be la'o In-Reply-To: <0106101819340B.01000@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Rob Speer wrote: > li'o > >A chord could be named by its notes, but you'd just have to use longer names. > >So perhaps G would be "mijyste" or "tigypre" and F7 would be . > > "tigypre" means "performer-person" and it would cause unacceptable confusion to > give it the additional totally unrelated meaning of a musical chord. Similarly > for "mijyste" which could be used in the description of an algorithm to find the > median. "ai.o'upei" is an attitudinal question and can't be used to name > anything. The proper way to name notes, I think, is with letterals. Think of it as a mnemonic for the note. ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!