From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Sun May 16 09:24:24 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 16 May 2004 09:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41908.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.159]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BPOQw-0001W1-Ky for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 16 May 2004 09:24:14 -0700 Message-ID: <20040516162343.47302.qmail@web41908.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.43.74.58] by web41908.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 16 May 2004 09:23:43 PDT Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:23:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: y: what is it good for? To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20040516142506.GD6655@fysh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 7882 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Zefram wrote: > Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > >If "y" is a word, it should be quotable with "zo", > >lerfuable with "bu", lujvoable with "zei", > >erasable with "si" and emphasizable with "ba'e", > >like any other word. > > Is "si" a word? It satisfies some of these criteria but not all. > I think "y" should be in the same category as "si". > > What you define above is actually a word-that-survives-pre-processing, > for which we don't have a convenient name. "si" is not that type of word, > nor is "y". I think John Cowan calls them "magic words". Then it is not mandatory in principle that it should be quotable with zo. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/