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Re: Aphorism (corrected)
- To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
- Subject: Re: Aphorism (corrected)
- From: John Cowan <cbmvax!UUNET.UU.NET!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan>
- In-Reply-To: <9111272103.AA10478@relay1.UU.NET>; from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Nov 27, 91 3:56 pm
- Reply-To: John Cowan <cbmvax!UUNET.UU.NET!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan>
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la mark. clsn. cusku di'e
> I worked out the meaning of John's algorithm early on, but it did me no
^^^^^^^^^
"aphorism"; been turbo geeking too long, Mark? zo'o
> As I understand it, "ge"
> conjoins bridi-tails, which must start with *selbri*, no leading sumti.
> John, wanna check on that? Did I miss something? These bridi have leading
> sumti.
"ge...gi" can also connect whole bridi, not just bridi-tails. In fact, geks
are the general forethought connectives; they connect everything except
tanru units and math operators (which are made to look like tanru), and
constructs that don't allow forethought at all.
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