From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Mar 25 11:37:25 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVXaQ-0003Lj-EF for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:37:02 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVXaL-0003LZ-G0 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:37:01 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91090CE89D for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:36:39 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] What's a better word for modals? Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:36:35 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703251436.37039.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: -9 X-Spam-Bar: - X-archive-position: 13631 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list The usual linguistic use of "modal" means a word like {ka'e}, or in the Germanic languages, a class of verbs, defective in English, with that semantic function, in which the original past tense is used as the present. The word in the CLL means a preposition derived from a brivla (all except {tai} are derived from gismu, and {do'e}, which belongs to the same selma'o, is a vague preposition not derived from any brivla). What's a better term for them? phma To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.