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From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!shoulson>
Subject:      [Major: The dreaded word "only"]
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   [Shoulson...]
   > "lat." is not a valid cmene for the same reason as above
   [Major...]
   > "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'".
   Wouldn't that be: la ty?  (or la ga'e ty?) As in
           xu la fy cu fancu cupra la ga'e ty
       (yes or no: the f function-produces the T)

No.  "la ty" is ungrammatical, since "la" cannot precede a letteral.  You
could use "li ty" or "li ga'e ty", I imagine.  I'm not positive of the
semantics though.

~mark
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