From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jul 23 11:17:28 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:17:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1Bo4bh-0002aI-E0; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:17:21 -0700 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:17:21 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] ge'a usage Message-ID: <20040723181721.GF1876@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 8295 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 Apropos of very little, it turns out that "ge'a" can be used in prefix mekso, as well as infix and postfix. This is important, because it turns out that "ge'a" can be used almost like "cu"; what it means is "Look out! Here comes the next mekso argument!". "li pi'i re ge'a pa" is an obviously pointless example (you could use "boi" and save yourself a syllable), but *believe* *me* when I say that having a cmavo that *always* means "end the current argument, regardless of terminators" is very, very nice, for exactly the same reason that being able to use "cu" instead of whatever terminators one might need in its place is very nice. I discovered this whilst reviewing my integral in "What Is Lojban?", which, by the way, is wrong. All that has to be done to fix it is put "vei" after "ri'o", though, because "ge'a" will close even "vei". -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"