http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/ Jboske: technical discussion of Lojban Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:08:48 GMT And Rosta http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3256 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3256 I have deleted spam from the archives of Engelang & Jboske, deleted pseudomembers, and set the lists to require new members to be approved by the moderator. I Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:43:40 GMT Jorge Llambías http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3248 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3248 ... I agree with you. In fact I use {sisku} with the place structure "x1 looks for object/person x2 among x3". ... Actually, it's the other way around: tu'a Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:56:24 GMT Matt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3247 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3247 I am abit confused about the use of tu'a in th ex2 place of sisku when talking about an object. Fistly I don't see the logical necessity of the x2 place being Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:38:35 GMT Jorge Llambías http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3226 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3226 ... Context? If it's not clear, you can always ask for more precision: {pa roi xo cacra be li xo}. I think it's unlikely that one would use {lo cacra} to refer Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:48:07 GMT Arnt Richard Johansen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3225 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3225 ... Yes, but there is no xorlo in there, so there is no problem. ... How do we know it's not "once during an unspecified number of hours"? -- Arnt Richard Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:08:17 GMT Jorge Llambías http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3224 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3224 ... I would say {pa roi ro cacra} is "once in every hour". I suppose {pa roi lo cacra} as "once an hour" with a generic hour, would also work. mu'o mi'e xorxes Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:07:20 GMT Arnt Richard Johansen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3223 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3223 I refer to the discussion on http://www.lojban.org/lists/jboske/msg00363.html . How does/should ROI work when the tagged sumti is a sumti headed by the new Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:58:01 GMT Jorge Llambías http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3217 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3217 ... I think we shouldn't. They don't really make much sense to me. ... Right, but the English "if you were to see her" would be completely wrong. "If you were Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:49:57 GMT Arnt Richard Johansen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3216 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3216 ... That is what we would like for it to do. But which rules support this interpretation? Wouldn't it be better if we put the da'i directly after "ga" if we Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:04:43 GMT Jorge Llambías http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3208 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3208 ... Yes (with the caveat for "left-influencing" that if the word to the left heads a construct, then the UI influences that construct, which will be to the Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:03:28 GMT Arnt Richard Johansen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3207 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3207 I am currently working on the BPFK section containing da'i. da'i is a UI, so it should follow the same left-influencing behaviour as any other free modifier, Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:27:42 GMT Jorge Llambías http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3199 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3199 ... It seems to be all correct. ... Not that I know of. ... The main one is that it makes it harder for humans to parse. ... It is inconsistent with the Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:51:51 GMT Hugh O'Byrne http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3198 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3198 Jboske: for technical discussion of the language Lojban; I like the sound of that! A phonemic alphabet was chosen for Lojban. Everyone seems well pleased with Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:33:57 GMT John E. Clifford http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3196 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3196 Remember that for singular referents, "distributive" and "personal" coincide. So for the singular "my going to the store" we get the right result. The Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:00:20 GMT Jorge Llambías http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3195 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/3195 ... Agreed. ... OK. ... To me this seems inevitable. For suppose we identify two levels and assign a different predicate to each level. The new predicates will