... Me, I find I can't be sure I understand something unless I know how to render it in explicit form. This also affects my reading of your postings on Q-kau:...
10372
Trained Reflex
eyolf.ostrem@...
Sep 1, 2001 4:23 pm
How does one say "God" in Lojban/Loglan? Does "it" have a random name (like "Mr Smith"), is it a simple predicate (like "chair"), or is it a more complex...
10373
Craig
ragnarok@...
Sep 1, 2001 4:27 pm
... Depends on your beliefs. God may have a specific name in yours, so s/he has a simple cmene. It may be more complex than that. But either way, you can use...
10374
Trained Reflex
eyolf.ostrem@...
Sep 1, 2001 4:37 pm
You probably have millions of people asking this (I don't mean "millions"; literally), but I haven't really found an answer elsewhere: What are the...
10375
pycyn@...
Sep 1, 2001 5:32 pm
I don't think it is the case any more -- if it ever was -- that translating from one of Loglan& Lojban to the other is merely a matter of substituting one word...
10376
pycyn@...
Sep 1, 2001 5:32 pm
In a message dated 9/1/2001 11:28:05 AM Central Daylight Time, ... impossible except negatively. But Lojban is good at negations, avoiding many of the...
10377
Jorge Llambias
jjllambias@...
Sep 1, 2001 6:49 pm
{lo'i du'u makau klama le zarci} is the set {tu'o du'u la djan klama le zarci; tu'o du'u la meris klama le zarci; tu'o du'u la djan e la meris klama le zarci;...
10378
pycyn@...
Sep 1, 2001 10:55 pm
In a message dated 8/30/2001 8:44:31 PM Central Daylight Time, ... This seems complex. Will the more direct, ro da rode di poi ge jetnu gi du'u da prami de...
10379
pycyn@...
Sep 1, 2001 10:55 pm
In a message dated 9/1/2001 1:51:06 PM Central Daylight Time, ... I know that And has come up with some suggestion about what {tu'o} means. I have not read it...
10380
Jorge Llambias
jjllambias@...
Sep 2, 2001 12:21 am
la pycyn cusku di'e ... It is only relevant in the context of the long term discussion around {kau}, not in the immediate context. ... The Lojban version...
10381
Adam Raizen
araizen@...
Sep 2, 2001 12:44 am
la .xorxes. cusku di'e ... First, would you consider "tu'o du'u la .djan. fa'u la .meris. klama le zarci" to be a member of that set? I don't think that you...
10382
Adam Raizen
araizen@...
Sep 2, 2001 12:44 am
la .and. cusku di'e ... that ... They become conventionalized, but can be overridden with an explicit CA'A. ... a ... Incidentally, I think that this was the...
10383
Adam Raizen
araizen@...
Sep 2, 2001 12:44 am
la .xorxes. cusku di'e ... that ... former, ... But doesn't this cause other problems? Don't we still want to be able to say "lo'e cinfo cu xabju le...
10384
Adam Raizen
araizen@...
Sep 2, 2001 12:44 am
la .djan. cusku di'e ... of ... ".i" ... Well, in http://nuzban.wiw.org/archive/9403/msg00007.html, you said that ".i" is the vague sentence connective like...
10385
Adam Raizen
araizen@...
Sep 2, 2001 12:44 am
la .xorxes. cusku di'e ... I can go with that, since we can say that it's a part of the definition of 'cnino' that x2 is aware of or evaluates x1 having the ...
10386
Adam Raizen
araizen@...
Sep 2, 2001 12:44 am
la .and. cusku di'e ... I think that "mo'e lo spaji" would be used in something like "li mo'e lo spaji su'i mo'e lo spaji du li mo'e lo mutce spaji" while...
10387
Jorge Llambias
jjllambias@...
Sep 2, 2001 1:29 am
la adam cusku di'e ... Yes, but notice that the referent(s) of {le zarci} get established once for all the set. If it refers to only one store, the fa'u answer...
10388
sbelknap
sbelknap@...
Sep 2, 2001 2:03 am
Your post prompted my inquiry as to whether the lojban community was familiar with cyc. Thanks for an interesting post...
10389
Bob LeChevalier (lojb...
lojbab@...
Sep 2, 2001 2:25 am
... Some history which I think will answer some of the questions on this issue. Originally, JCB thought to prove Loglan's unambiguity using the theories of a...
10390
Pierre Abbat
phma@...
Sep 2, 2001 2:56 am
Shouldn't that be {klanrvolta}? It is, after all, named for Alessandro Volta. {klanrdjuli} cracked me up. It sounds like an amount of jelly. But then the ...
10391
Pierre Abbat
phma@...
Sep 2, 2001 3:40 am
I see comments in various pages in the Wiki that some proposed gismu clashes with some preexisting gismu. For instance, {tango} is said to clash with {tanko}....
10392
cmeclax po'u le c...
cmeclax@...
Sep 2, 2001 4:30 am
... Hash: SHA1 de'i Tuesday 28 August 2001 17:05 la Invent Yourself cusku di'e li'o ... I put the x2 of ni in last place in the lujvo: nilselylacri: x1 is how...
10393
Rob Speer
rob@...
Sep 2, 2001 5:18 am
... I go by the convention that if there's no final vowel inherent in the word, I use the final vowel of the gismu that the fu'ivla classifier came from - in ...
10394
Rob Speer
rob@...
Sep 2, 2001 5:27 am
... The morphology doesn't say anything at all about how to make unofficial gismu. Considering that you're going so far as to make the words gismu instead of ...
10395
Bob LeChevalier (lojb...
lojbab@...
Sep 2, 2001 5:58 am
... IIRC, the gismu making algorithm excluded all words that differed only by a voiced/unvoiced distinction or for palatals, only a stop/fricative (s/c or z/j...
10396
Bob LeChevalier (lojb...
lojbab@...
Sep 2, 2001 6:20 am
... My kids have never shown particular interest in Lojban, and neither seems especially adept at learning languages (my daughter eked out a D- in first year...
10397
Bob LeChevalier (lojb...
lojbab@...
Sep 2, 2001 9:06 am
... Yep. Still is. TLI Loglanists use a somewhat different style, and their place structures make less use of abstractions (or at least obvious use), but for...
10398
Bob LeChevalier (lojb...
lojbab@...
Sep 2, 2001 9:26 am
... The rules, so far as I know, were NOT given in the refgram, BECAUSE they had not been proven. However they were stated algorithmically for a computer...
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Bob LeChevalier (lojb...
lojbab@...
Sep 2, 2001 10:04 am
... I plead guilty. ... Feeling exemplary and in a mood to be stomped on, my original concept of ni was something like lo rupnu be li panono cu ni le kosta cu...
