From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun Aug 12 10:58:35 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 12 Aug 2001 17:58:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 72242 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2001 17:58:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 12 Aug 2001 17:58:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 12 Aug 2001 17:58:33 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15VzVP-0001nP-00 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 10:58:31 -0700 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 10:58:31 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] New to lojban, any suggestions? Message-ID: <20010812105831.Q9037@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <9l1op2+k2ts@eGroups.com> <3B74643C.9070108@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B74643C.9070108@yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i From: Robin Lee Powell On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:46:20PM -0500, Steven Fodstad wrote: > I started to keep a journal in Lojban, but it's been slow going because > a) I've never written a journal before, b)I have an extremely small > vocabulary, and c) I am learning to use Emacs at the same time.(Thank > you, Gnu people, for the Alt+1,Alt+Shift+1 shortcut) > > As an aside--in the previous paragraph, I explicitly numbered the items. > Is there a similar facility in Lojban? One way to do it: mo'o MAI section ordinal higher-order utterance ordinal suffix; converts a number to ordinal, usually a section/chapter There are others. > You could try my method--start a journal. There's IRC(I can't connect > to EFNet because Identd doesn't work on my machine), We're not on efnet.[1] -Robin [1]: Being deliberately unhelpful because no-one will use the IRC server _he_ set up which would handle these sorts of problems. 8P -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/