From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun May 16 12:06:29 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 16 May 2004 12:06:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BPQxn-0003DP-9f for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 16 May 2004 12:06:19 -0700 Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 12:06:19 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: y: what is it good for? Message-ID: <20040516190619.GF6978@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040516091535.GA6655@fysh.org> <20040516135451.27822.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> <20040516142506.GD6655@fysh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040516142506.GD6655@fysh.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7885 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 03:25:06PM +0100, 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? Of course. > It satisfies some of these criteria but not all. Really? Which of those criteria does it not satisfy? The only one that I can see that it doesn't satisfy is not being erasable with 'si', which is transparently circular. -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