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Re: North Wind tale
- To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
- Subject: Re: North Wind tale
- From: cbmvax!uunet!MULLIAN.EE.MU.OZ.AU!nsn
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1992 13:51:04 +1000
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jun 92 12:13:20 BST."
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Ivan on my NorWind thingy:
>> >la berbif. joi la sol. puki darlu lejei ri jikau ra vlimau le drata kei
>> Your method of "which is stronger" works okay <...>
>I don't like it. What if there were more contestants? Suppose it
>were the snow, the rain and the wind. Or suppose the twelve months of
>the year were wondering which of them was the most important one.
>Would you say {lejei rixipa jikau rixire jikau ... jikau rixipapa
>jikau rixipare}?
No. I don't know if you'll like what I'd prefer, but: {lejei [or: ledu'u]
dakau no'u rixipa .a rixire .a ... .a rixipare}. Or, to kill those
subscripts, {ledu'u leno'a po'u dakau}: the subject of the outside sentence
*restricted to* the particular {da}.
Yes, I know this is a kludge. {ledu'u dakau poi cmima le'ino'a} isn't much
better either. It's one of these imperfect mappings of NL into First Order
logic, methinks. Alternate insights welcome.
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Nick S. Nicholas, "Rode like foam on the river of pity
Depts. of CompSci & ElecEng, Turned its tide to strength
University of Melbourne, Australia. Healed the hole that ripped in living"
nsn@{munagin.ee|mundil.cs}.mu.oz.au - Suzanne Vega, Book Of Dreams
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