From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Thu Jan 16 22:34:38 1992 Return-Path: Message-Id: <9201170309.AA05423@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1992 14:05:23 +1100 Reply-To: Major Sender: Lojban list From: Major Subject: The dreaded word "only" To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson"'s message of Wed, 15 Jan 1992 09:05:59 EST <199201151410.AA25081@pta.pyramid.com.au> Status: RO "Mark E. Shoulson" writes: > "lat." is not a valid cmene for the same reason as above (tho in > this case it's hard to see how it would break up; even if you > consider it to be syllabic [with buffer vowel], I doubt most would accept > "t." as a cmene). "T" is the name of the truth constant in most implementations of lisp. A discussion of a lisp program might well want to refer to "the thing named 'T'". Moral: No exceptions! Dig a hole and someone *will* fall in it. Major