From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Jun 22 06:54:21 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 22 Jun 2001 13:54:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 70781 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2001 13:54:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Jun 2001 13:54:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-2.cais.net) (205.252.14.72) by mta1 with SMTP; 22 Jun 2001 13:54:19 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (58.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.58]) by stmpy-2.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5MDsI595231 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:54:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010622095455.00e2c830@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:58:59 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Digits (was Re: [lojban] mi prami la lojban .iku'i...) In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010621203013.0237a6c8@postoffice.pacbell.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010621203038.00e01400@127.0.0.1> <96.15eb10e7.2863e2b2@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 12:38 AM 06/22/2001 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: >At 05:56 PM 6/21/2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > >At 07:52 PM 06/21/2001 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: >... > > >pc, who cannot reliably count to 5 in Lojban -- and certainly not to 6 > > (which > > >I can do in Hindi, for God sake!) > > > >Really! I knew parecivomu before I knew 50 gismu. xazebisono took me only > >a little longer. > >.oiro'o .i e'osai ko cusku li noparecivo.muxazebiso lu > >0 is not the next numeral after 9, even if the idiotic QWERTY keyboard puts True, I should have said pano. But I have never started counting at zero, so your approach doesn't help much. How about sobizexamu vocirepano (although I feel inclined to insert a boi between each number and end with a lujvo for "liftoff" - that how most people of my generation think of counting down). 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