From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun May 16 12:05:22 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 16 May 2004 12:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BPQwi-0003Aw-Oo for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 16 May 2004 12:05:12 -0700 Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 12:05:12 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: y: what is it good for? Message-ID: <20040516190512.GE6978@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040516091535.GA6655@fysh.org> <20040516135451.27822.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040516135451.27822.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7884 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 Sun, May 16, 2004 at 06:54:51AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Zefram wrote: > > "y" is a word. Hence it should be quotable with "zo". > > > > "lo nu pensi kei smuni zo y" > > 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. It's those last two that scare me. For the record, the CLL *specifically* states that .y. does not interact with the grammar at any point. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi