From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Jul 19 11:59:36 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19dwvW-0004jz-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:59:26 -0700 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:59:26 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: use of ko'a Message-ID: <20030719185926.GC963@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20030717181732.GY24731@skunk.reutershealth.com> <3F17108D.5030501@bilkent.edu.tr> <006701c34cb6$bfa7a620$7f3f0751@oemcomputer> <3F1819CF.4080904@bilkent.edu.tr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F1819CF.4080904@bilkent.edu.tr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 5921 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:01:19PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > When I said "you would only use it", I didn't mean "you can never > use it in any other way." Unbound ko'a is grammatical, but > stylistically I think it's malglico. I disagree. le mi mamta mamta cu mutce nelci le karce .i ko'a ji'a nelci le ladru I don't see that anyone's going to have much confusion there, and since I presumably intend to deliver a bunch more sentences involving le mi mamta mamta, it seems a reasonable thing to do. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "but I'm not stupid and people are not stupid who think samely with me" -- from an actual, real, non-spam mail sent to webmaster@lojban.org http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui