From melissa@fastanimals.com Sat Feb 28 10:58:47 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:58:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [216.127.72.21] (helo=www.simlifecycle.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Ax9fj-00064u-JX for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:58:47 -0800 Received: from localhost (melissa@localhost) by www.simlifecycle.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i1SIF2I28174 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:15:02 -0600 Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:15:02 -0600 (CST) From: melissa@fastanimals.com X-X-Sender: melissa@www.simlifecycle.com To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: (no subject) In-Reply-To: <20040227232948.GA1544@digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 545 X-Approved-By: melissa@fastanimals.com 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 Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:35:50PM -0600, melissa@fastanimals.com wrote: > > These syntactically senseless sentences are possible in English and > > Spanish, and I seem to recall that they're possible in Swahili as well > > (although my Swahili is quite rusty). I suspect that they are > > possible in any natural language. > > I think you're confused about the word 'possible'. No, I'm not confused about the meaning of a simple and common word in my native language. I'm neither an idiot nor an ignoramus. > "mi co klama gerku" is completely invalid Lojban. It is invalid in > exactly the same way (in terms of being a syntactic invalidity) that "I > die you" is invalid in English. I'll take your word for this being invalid Lobjan. If the co can't work there then my question is answered, albeit indirectly. > However, it's still just a series of sounds, so it is of course > *possible* to say it. That's not really germane. We can make many series of sounds, but that doesn't really have anything to do with a language's grammar or syntax. Thanks for the help. -- mylisys XOLynswyrt mi tadni la lojban