From melissa@fastanimals.com Fri Feb 27 10:45:18 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:29:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [216.127.72.21] (helo=www.simlifecycle.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Awmz8-0000I7-7I for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:45:18 -0800 Received: from localhost (melissa@localhost) by www.simlifecycle.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i1RI1gT25787 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:01:42 -0600 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:01:42 -0600 (CST) From: melissa@fastanimals.com X-X-Sender: melissa@www.simlifecycle.com To: "'lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org'" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: precise definition of cmene In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 530 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: melissa@fastanimals.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Scott Weller wrote: > > Could I even say > > > > la dinas. mixre la labrydor.rytrivyr. > > Well, no, actually, you can't say that. > > One of the finer rules of cmene constuction says that a cmene cannot contain > (among a few other things) the element 'la'. If we allowed 'la > labrydor.rytrivyr' there would be ambiguity as to whether that might really > be 'la la brydor.rytrivyr' (whatever that might mean). Oh, good point. That makes sense. -- mylisys XOLynswyrt mi tadni la lojban