From rob@twcny.rr.com Tue Jun 12 16:16:36 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 12 Jun 2001 23:16:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 40285 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2001 23:12:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 Jun 2001 23:12:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout1.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.146) by mta2 with SMTP; 12 Jun 2001 23:12:45 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.74]) by mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with ESMTP id f5CNBJf06651 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:11:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.95.175.101]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:11:18 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 159xGz-00008b-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:08:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:08:33 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: zi'o and modals Message-ID: <20010612190833.A510@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:10:46PM -0400, Craig wrote: > So why don't we just change the meaning of 'botpi' so that it only has three > places and none for a cap? Then we could have a gismu that means cap (If we > don't already) and then say 'ti botpi .i ta cu [cap] ti' to say this is a > bottle and that is its cap, and the botpi relationship would make sense. I believe this was resolved last time around. A bottle that doesn't botpi is a botytai. -- Rob Speer