From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Apr 11 14:03:37 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DL64H-0002ws-TH for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:03:37 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DL64H-0002wl-Qz for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:03:37 -0700 Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:03:37 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojbanists in Oxford Message-ID: <20050411210337.GB8796@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20050406233156.GB2746@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <11754.193.133.140.104.1113226603.squirrel@193.133.140.104> <20050411203925.GA8040@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1381 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:55:07PM +0200, Yann Le Du wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > >On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:01:45PM +0200, Yann Le Du wrote: > >>On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Peter TB Brett wrote: > >> > >>>la la'o xy. Yann Le Du xy. fo le samymri cu cusku fe di'e: > >> > >>Hi Peter, > >> > >>"la'o" replaces "la", so I believe you should remove the latter > > > >The former, you mean. > > I'm lost : what should be removed ? "la". "la la'o" is redundant, and means "the thing named by the thing named by this non-Lojban string", which is very much like saying "mi se cmene la .bab.", which means "My name is named Bob". -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/