From phma@oltronics.net Mon Jul 09 20:45:52 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 10 Jul 2001 03:45:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 96220 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2001 03:45:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 10 Jul 2001 03:45:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.81) by mta2 with SMTP; 10 Jul 2001 03:41:23 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 80D563C55D; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 23:39:30 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] 'irrational' numbers Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 23:27:25 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01070923392904.01814@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Mon, 09 Jul 2001, John Cowan wrote: li'o >Pi has its own cmavo, pai. For the others, youc an >say "mo'e la xxx.", where "mo'e" converts a sumti >to a math operand. > >> 2. What does "LI X" mean, where X is something other than a PA? > >Following "li" (or its fraternal twin "mo'e") there must be a >mathematical expression, so only mekso words are allowed there. >However, one can convert a sumti to an operand, as above, >or a selbri to an operator with "na'u" (x1 is the result, >x2 etc. are the operands). I think you mean "me'o" the second time. "Me'o" takes a mex and converts it to a sumti without evaluating it, while "li" takes a mex and converts its value to a sumti. So "ta me me'o denpa bu" means "that is a period", while "ta me li denpa bu" does not have an obvious meaning; "ta me me'o bi" means "that is a figure eight" whereas "ta me li bi" means "that is eight". ma se diklo le za'i me'o pi me me'o denpa bu? mu'omi'e pier.