From pnewton@gmx.de Fri May 16 03:13:08 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 16 May 2003 03:13:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postman1.arcor-online.net ([151.189.0.187] helo=postman.arcor.de) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19Gc9k-00078h-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 16 May 2003 03:09:40 -0700 Received: from hamwpne1 (pc1-oxfd1-5-cust27.oxfd.cable.ntl.com [62.254.134.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by postman.arcor.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4GA9Wpo021526 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 12:09:33 +0200 (MEST) From: "Philip Newton" Organization: datenrevision GmbH & Co. OHG To: lojban-list@lojban.org Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 12:08:58 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [lojban] Re: le lalxu daplu pe la .inisfris. Message-ID: <3EC4D4DA.5930.7E0D68@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: References: <20030514161316.19351.qmail@web20508.mail.yahoo.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-description: Mail message body X-archive-position: 5301 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pnewton@gmx.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 16 May 2003 at 3:40, sshiskom wrote: > On the other hand, what is {bu'u ibu}? Isn't {ibu} a letteral > for "i"? Yes. But lerfu can also be used as pro-sumti; if they are not explicitly assigned with {goi}, they are, by convention, taken to refer to "the most recent sumti whose name or description begins in Lojban with that lerfu". See http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter17.html#s9 Hence, {.ibu} could reasonably refer to {la .Inisfris}. mu'o mi'e .filip. -- Philip Newton