From pnewton@gmx.de Mon Mar 08 00:08:27 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 08 Mar 2004 00:08:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsread1.arcor-online.net ([151.189.0.146] helo=postman.arcor.de) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B0FoD-0001DU-Lg for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2004 00:08:22 -0800 Received: from hamwpne1 (cou.ch [212.13.198.90]) (authenticated bits=0) by postman.arcor.de (8.13.0.PreAlpha4/8.13.0.PreAlpha4) with ESMTP id i2888Dtv024719 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 09:08:13 +0100 (MET) From: "Philip Newton" Organization: datenrevision GmbH & Co. OHG To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:08:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Feedback on phrases Message-ID: <404C37F9.20984.EAE87@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20040308004413.K8729@fresco.Math.McGill.CA> References: <100e21fcf79.fcf79100e21@imap.epfl.ch>; from gregory.dyke@epfl.ch on Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 10:22:00AM +0100 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-archive-position: 575 X-Approved-By: pnewton@gmx.de 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: pnewton@gmx.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 8 Mar 2004 at 0:44, Andrew Archibald wrote: > Ah. Maybe it would be clearer to say that every sentence needs a > selbri at the top level? Not necessarily - e.g. the answer to {le mi palku cu zvati ma} could be {le xotli} "at the hotel", where the answer simply fills in the blank asked for by {ma}. So the answer need not contain a selbri. {.uisai} is also a complete utterance. But in general, "useful" sentences (that aren't simply answers to questions or attitudinals) will generally have a top-level selbri, in my opinion. mu'o mi'e .filip. -- filip.niutyn. li te'o te'a ka'o bi'e pi'i pai su'i pa du li no