[lojban-beginners] Re: Fwd: the gismu typos

2008-06-01 Thread der Mouse
> "Spofu" is not easier to learn than "spotu" in principle, but it > certainly is easier to learn in principle, [...] Uh, say what? /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email!

[lojban-beginners] Nth roots of unity

2008-02-17 Thread der Mouse
ere is one clearly right answer. This is an example. The definition you quote is right, and I say that as someone with a BSc in mathematics, who knows enough complex analysis to have written out the definition cold. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against H

[lojban-beginners] trutca or raltca

2008-01-11 Thread der Mouse
be New York City rather than Albany? (Of the various glosses for "ralju" in the gismu list, I do see "leader", but the rest of them make me think that is a misleading gloss in this case.) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

[lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome

2007-10-28 Thread der Mouse
nd, on a completely different note, it would help if you could learn and apply proper email quoting etiquiette. Every time you top-post and fail to trim context (which combination seems to be your usual modus operandi) you push me closer to mentally killfiling you as someone who can't be bothere

[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V6 #169

2007-09-28 Thread der Mouse
y SH; the following SH seems to want to pull the tongue back from the teeth a little, producing the usual "soft CH"). /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

[lojban-beginners] Re: "technology"

2007-08-19 Thread der Mouse
> What's the difference between the x1 and the x2 of {larcu}? Well, I'm hardly authoritative. But, as I read the gismu list, an example might be, x1 is the building of a beautiful house where x2 is carpentry. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X

[lojban-beginners] Re: copyrights

2007-08-11 Thread der Mouse
udy or research". Of course, if it really matters, go find an intellectual property lawyer practicing in the relevant jurisdiction(s). /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V6 #110

2007-06-22 Thread der Mouse
> adults) after some weeks of training. Is this possible/plausible? The plasticity of the human brain/mind is often far underrated. :) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V6 #83

2007-05-26 Thread der Mouse
just to check). *Finding* the relevant character amid the tens of thousands of characters there is likely to be a bit of a challenge, though. That probably won't cover all Japanese characters, but between the kana ranges and the CJK range you probably will get all the characters you can act

[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V6 #82

2007-05-25 Thread der Mouse
identical vowel. Um, doesn't that make it a diaeresis, rather than an umlaut, then? /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V6 #30

2007-03-02 Thread der Mouse
another plausible one. This is one reason I find lojban so fascinating: it exposes a layer of Sapir-Whorf-ness I'd never been aware of before. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V5 #208

2006-12-08 Thread der Mouse
, not "some animals are not pigs". Or does {naku} mean something other than a {na} which happens to be placed next to a {ku}? /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V5 #41

2006-03-09 Thread der Mouse
licit in the notion of facing in a direction.) Necessarily, since we can define any one of the three axes (left-right, up-down, forward-backward) as the cross product of the other two, so if one of them is ambiguous, at least one of the other two must be as well. /~\ The ASCII

[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V5 #35

2006-02-23 Thread der Mouse
alled a `service', though certainly many of them have more precise names. What am I missing? /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B