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Date: Thu Dec 12 13:44:26 1991
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From: Logical Language Group <cbmvax!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!lojbab>
Subject:      Re:  Meaning of 'la'
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To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>, Ken Taylor <taylor@gca.com>
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Not quite.  "Lojbab" doesn;t mean 'logical soap', though it is plausible
if not correct that it is a name derived from the phrase.  What John was
saying, though, is that an actual predicate word (which 'lojbab' isn't since
it is morphologically a name) can also be marked with "la".

"la lojyzbabu" IS the thing called "logical soap".

lojbab