From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 07 19:48:49 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MONDF-00085c-6H for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:48:49 -0700 Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.147]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MOND8-00084x-L0 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:48:48 -0700 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 13so1328531eye.46 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:48:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zLiwb4/DuZcziMzACmvwHWtA7ENUmu7DH2/GZF34CPM=; b=YJvCgiuCzgTyV30Z77wv1V0tsA3UQDYxTepDowBXGM5UexealilhodK0p8emmU2AKM zZg0EeUQopJ6g7p0xAxwCYM3xOt9/n9sQXBxTS1wg4ddsPVvx1uHdD+Znd5sWfU9u7sB P+MuNBTYPmKI7BhFJfr0zg/RmxHn7bPiZVD2c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=YdDkpK6Toz3cP4yMHJQpKqhH8oxWSYRHNiKy1mNXyw0phkJ4P77cgERHZx8MmhWHbG TCIMpXcQAs42nf3vHPcmSFHiWv82G84lOHs3mpEulfQEiQYcH61MQjyxLT2/RfAyq4VG i6hY1HGPWTSpGrqxLQrpmxNM/OLLG68AHbSPU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.88.3 with SMTP id l3mr7306540ebb.17.1247021320860; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:48:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <96f789a60907071928i565a727u211c2532ecbe2989@mail.gmail.com> References: <737b61f30907071923k3fce033chbd8b0aaa6617341f@mail.gmail.com> <96f789a60907071928i565a727u211c2532ecbe2989@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:48:40 -0500 Message-ID: <737b61f30907071948v1bad13f1w51ae22dfedf0d90b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: be, bei? From: Chris Capel To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 15743 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pdf23ds@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 21:28, Michael Turniansky wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Chris Capel wrote: >> Why is bei grammatically necessary? Why not make {broda lo brode be la >> alis. la djan be'o} legal? > >   Well, I guess you could, but then be'o would basically never be > elidable except at the end of an utterance Ahh, I see. And as it is, be'o is almost always elidable, right? Chris Capel -- "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?" -- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet) 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.