From thanatos@dim.com Thu Dec 26 11:57:48 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:57:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from supernova.dimensional.com ([206.124.0.11]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18Re8V-00046Y-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:57:43 -0800 Received: from p43.3c07.pm.dimcom.net (p43.3c07.pm.dimcom.net [206.124.5.107]) by supernova.dimensional.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id gBQJvar19076 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:57:37 -0700 (MST) From: EWC To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] broda bu instead of by? Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:01:11 -0700 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 3638 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: thanatos@dim.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Any thoughts on using "broda bu" rather than "by" to refer back to a previous sumti? It's obviously not shorter in syllables, but it seems to me to be clearer in meaning and not have the variable binding issues (I think) of repeating the sumti verbatim. Also, it would let you reference multiple "by" sumti without needing forethought assignment or subscripting. So is "broda bu boi brode bu brodi" neat and useful, or just despicable Lojban? -- EWC