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coi ro do la lojban. banli What is the best translation for "square" in the sense of chess and other board games? mi'e .ianis. To unsubscribe from this list,...
... A square in a chessboard certainly kurfa, but its corners are not important; on the other hand, it selci the board. How about kursle? phma To unsubscribe...
In the chess variant community, where we use several different shapes, we have taken to referring to them as spaces, cells, points, or sites. A brivla or tanru...
... Yes, and also other games use triangular, hexagonal, and other shapes for what is essentially the same concept. {kurfa} could eventually be added as a...
Those here who are interested in de-novo alphabets and in computers will be interested in The Programmer's Font, which should have been named The Programmer's...
... The demo would be more interesting if the letters were very, very small (to prove his point). -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ ***...
Ugh. It's really... um, strange. He's going for distinctiveness, and yet many of the glyphs are rotations and reflections of each other? I know that's...
... The distinction you are making is one made by the definite and indefinite articles in English and other languages, but this distinction is made in Lojban...
The short rule is: Use {le broda} if you have something in mind and are minded to call it a broda (even if it is not one) so long as calling it that serves to...
Generally speaking (I would say always, but there are arguments for exceptions) {lo broda} is a primary occurrence (not in the scope of an odd number of...
... Yes, though there seem to be other uses in English. ... je'e, I now see that CLL lists them as such. ... I am now more definite in my understanding of how...
coi ro do la lojban. banli In Wikipedian article http://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/glico_bangu there is a phrase {ralju bangu be le gligu'e}. My question is, is...
The latter; tanru function as units wherever the sumti happen to attach. (Arguments for the opposite side exist.) ... To unsubscribe from this list, send mail...
... I think of {le} as standing somewhere between {lo} and {la}. With {lo} the meaning of the following word is all important and whether or not the speaker...
... The former. For the latter, you can say {ke ralju bangu ke'e be le gligu'e}. {be} attaches a sumti to the single tanru unit to its left. {bangu be le...
One of the PR problems with saying that Lojban (and Loglan before it) are logical languages, with their grammars based on that of Formal Logic, is that it so...
... In Lojban the form matches the meaning, at least in this case. The relevant part of the grammar is: selbri <- tanru-unit+ tanru-unit <- tanru-unit-2...
... This is a (helpful) rule more than a definition/explanation. For the purposes of this discussion, I'd like to drop non-veridicality from the definition of...
... Yes. (Except for "bearness", because lo cribe has to be something that does cribe, and bearness doesn't.) Because (unless I'm ... Not in all cases, but...
... But {ralju bangu be le gligu'e} is a selbri, not generally a bridi. The Lojban grammar has it ... How does the "logical form" deal with tanru? Because this...
... [...] ... So... is it then impossible to use {lo'e} in conjunction with "le"? If it is possible, then what do you mean by {le} serving to preclude the ...
... I will pass on {lo'e} since I don't really know how it works, nor do I have a theory on how it should work. All I meant is that {le cribe cu nelci le...
... The point that I'm getting at is: if {le} basically precludes some certain subset of {lo} that could be specified by some cmavo, then this means that it...
This is a little like comparing apples and unicorns: {lo'e} is logically a very different kind of thing from {le} -- or {lo}. It is a simple way to state a...
... No, {ralju bangu} is a selbri; the incidental conversion required for fitting the arguments into a sumti does not change their status as arguments. ... ...
... yep, my bad. Misunderstood how lo'e was used. ... So we have lo, which could mean any of the following: lo'e - the typical le - not the typical, but some...
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